But Saudi Arabia and its key ally the United Arab Emirates, despite arming and funding southern troops during the war, do not back secession and say they fight for a unified Yemen. It is fully entitled to defend itself and it's fully entitled to call on its friends in so doing.
Meanwhile British Foreign Secretary Michael Fallon claimed Saudi Arabia was "defending itself" by its two-year bombing campaign that has slaughtered thousands of Yemeni civilians.
Meanwhile, the Saudis have labeled the Houthis as Iranian proxies, an accusation Tehran continues to vehemently denied.
With respect to the US's involvement, which is presently limited to airstrikes and covert war against al-Qaeda in Yemen and providing logistical support for the Saudi war campaign, the operation to seize Hodeidah Port will certainly require a new level of United States force commitment that might result in counter-attacks against the USA forces and thus spiral out of control.
The civil war began in February 2015, when Zaidi Shia rebels known as Houthis, ousted President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. Sheikh, the party's worldwide trade spokeswoman, described the UK Government's seeming indifference to the crisis in Yemen and issues of arms sales as "truly sickening".
The US has always been providing intelligence and arms support to Saudi Arabia in its two-year-long aggression against Yemen. Every arms export application is very carefully looked at and judged by our criteria - some of the toughest in the world.
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Saleh, who survived an assassination attempt in 2011, has repeatedly said he was open to talks with Saudi Arabia.
Yesterday the Labour party's national executive committee (NEC) confirmed its policy of sticking to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation spending obligations but ending sales to Saudi Arabia. The law, known by the acronym JASTA, gives victims' families the right to sue any foreign country found to support a terrorist attack that kills US citizens on American soil.
The coalition source said it was developing capacity to deliver aid at the southern ports and at a land crossing in central Yemen - all under the control of its allies in the country's internationally recognized government. However it reportedly continues to use cluster bombs made in the USA and Brazil - countries which are not parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
According to Human Rights Watch, cluster bombs "pose a threat post-conflict by leaving remnants, including submunitions that fail to explode upon impact becoming de facto landmines".
The Kingdom's budget deficit was initially projected at $53 billion for this year.
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