This topic has been discussed to death 100 times before.
Houthis have no legitimacy. They are a a less than 25 year old terrorist sect who have waged several wars against the Yemeni state including against their new "friend" and "ally" Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Hadi is the legitimate president (as per the UN) and he represents the legitimate Yemeni nation and army while the Houthis and Ali Abdullah Saleh (former ousted Yemeni dictator that ruled for almost 40 years) are incompetent and qat-addicted people.
KSA and the Arab coalition intervened in Yemen 6 months after the Houthis made a violent coup in September 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen
Anyway the Houthis/Saleh are getting spanked by a few 1000 Saudi Arabian/Arab soldiers acting as advisers mainly (with minimal casualties) and the Yemeni army that we are helping restructure, train and rearm. They are on loan basically.
85% + of Yemen is in our control including all the most strategic areas (ports, cities, areas where the oil and gas is) etc. Gaining invaluable experience conducting a large-scale war like this that no other regional country has experienced in the past 30 + years (since the Iraq-Iran war).
Those are the facts.
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Hadi is not relevant here (the person) but the institution he represents which is the legitimate Yemeni government that was ousted for no reason by a incompetent and qat addicted terrorist movement (Houthis) that does not even represent Yemeni Zaydis. A terrorist movement that has waged several wars against the Yemeni state previously, including against their now new "friend" and "ally" Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Sana'a is of no strategic importance other than being one of the most beautiful cities in the world and most ancient with some of the best preserved old neighborhoods and a unique architecture (like most Yemeni and other Arabian cities).
BTW the legitimate Yemeni army and the Arab coalition are 30 km away from Sana'a as can be seen by the map I posted and every other that you can find
KSA along with the Arab coalition (numerous Arab countries) have interfered in Yemen in order to restore legitimacy and not allow an highly incompetent 25 year old terrorist sect (Houthis) to create a new Afghanistan or Somalia next door. This won't be allowed nor will the Yemenis allow it to happen.
BUT (a big but, not butt) the Yemeni UN ambassador is correct here. This current civil war is not a new conflict or a new thing and KSA has not created it nor any other Arab nation. However we are a party to the conflict albeit minimal nowadays (limited to our air force, border guards, special forces etc.). Most of the current fighting (as should be the case) is done by the Yemeni army.
As another user here rightly wrote in another thread, "The day Yemeni and coalition forcesiberate houdeidah it would.be end of houthis and saleh , coalition forces made hugenadvancement in taiz including liberation of.khalidnbin waleed camp".
Basically it is UN's bitching that has slowed down the process a bit as the Houthis/Salehs sole connection to the outside world is Hudaydah. However as every terrorists group, they are using civilians as their shields and as bargain chips. Did not work in Ta'iz recently where a few Houthis were lynched by civilians (Zaydis).
KSA won't fall into a trap of being dragged into a never ending war which our few incompetent enemies are hoping for which is why large scale involvement ended long ago despite continuous advancements.
The same enemy retards are talking about downing a Saudi Arabian frigate (another one apparently) when no such thing has ever occurred. The only attack on a Saudi Arabian/Arab coalition vessel was a suicide bomb attack that killed 3 sailors and only partially destroyed a vessel (that is now back in service). Pathetic morons.
Before those same pathetic morons begin to bark, they should have in mind that a similar attack once took place against the US in Aden back in 2000. USS Cole (guided-missile destroyer) that killed 17 sailors and wounded 39.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing