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The chief negotiator for Yemen’s Houthis said on Thursday the group’s attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea do not threaten its peace talks with Saudi Arabia, blaming Israel’s war in Gaza for dragging the Middle East into more regional conflict.

The U.N. Security Council demanded Yemen’s Houthis immediately end attacks on ships in the Red Sea and cautioned against escalating tensions while implicitly endorsing a U.S.-led task force that has been defending vessels.

The UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, announced the Yemeni parties’ agreement to put forward a roadmap to to end the conflict in Yemen through a pledge to take measures to implement a ceasefire across the country and enhance living conditions in Yemen.

The UN’s envoy for Yemen has laid out a roadmap for peace in the country, which he says is reliant on solid commitments from the internationally recognized government and the Iran-backed Houthis.

A group of countries led by the United States have warned Yemen’s Houthi rebels of “consequences” unless they stop their attacks on Red Sea shipping vessels.

Yemen’s warring parties have committed to a new ceasefire and agreed to engage in a UN-led peace process to end the war, the UN envoy for Yemen said Saturday.

Yemen’s Houthis will not halt attacks on ships linked to Israel in the Red Sea, despite the United States announcing a new maritime protection force to counter them, a spokesperson for the rebel group said.

The US has warned Houthi rebels that the peace plan for Yemen that was negotiated with Saudi Arabia and handed to the UN peace envoy will fail if attacks on merchant shipping off the coast of Yemen continue.