A high-ranking source told Al Mayadeen that Saudi Arabia has asked the Sultanate of Oman to request a two-week truce from the Houthis, during which discussions will be held to address the humanitarian situation, reports Al Mayadeen

Previous truces of this kind have been extended repeatedly and have coincided with a marked reduction in cross-border strikes on Saudi energy infrastructure, which is the actual transmission channel for crude, not Yemen's negligible output. The headline worth distinguishing is Saudi confirmation of a humanitarian agreement in principle: that degree of named commitment has historically been a stronger signal than unattributed sourcing, though Al Mayadeen sits closer to the Houthi-Iran axis and its framing tends to run ahead of formal announcements from Riyadh. The follow-ons that matter are whether the Houthis accept the request, whether a formal Riyadh statement corroborates it, and how it interacts with the separate track of Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb shipping attacks, where tanker routing and war-risk insurance premiums are the observable market expression. Truces in this theatre have proven fragile and their collapse has previously re-priced Gulf security risk quickly, so the two-week window is best read as a test rather than a resolution.