Saudi-led coalition violates UN-declared truce in Yemen 152 times

Saudi-led coalition violates UN-declared truce in Yemen 152 times

The US-backed Saudi-Emirati coalition forces and their mercenaries committed 152 violations of the two-month UN-declared humanitarian and military truce in Yemen during the past 24 hours, the official Yemeni news agency Saba reported on Friday, citing a military source.

According to the military source, the aggression’s armed reconnaissance aircraft flew over Hajjah and Jawf provinces  19 times and 59 times on Ma’rib, Jawf, Hajjah, Saada, Lahj, Bayda and Amran provinces and on beyond the borders.

He confirmed that the mercenaries of the aggression created combat fortifications, behind al-Fayeh hill in Wadi Ubaidah area in Ma’rib province and carried out an infiltration operation in al-Hadd in Lahj province and an  offensive operation on the sites of the army and the popular committees in al-Akd in Ma’rib province.

The source pointed out that the aggression mercenaries fired 14 missile and artillery bombardments on the sites of the army and the popular committees.

He said the mercenaries intensely shelled with artillery shelling the army and the committee sites in al-Balaq al-Sharqi, al-Jarda, al-Akd, al-Faliha, al-Naqa’ al-Sufla and al-Sa’ila ateas in Ma’rib, Mazraat al-Hamdani and Wadi Umm al-Khashab areas west of Haradh in Hajjah and in al-Madafen area in Saada.

The source stated that 57 violations were recorded with heavy gunfire targeting citizens’ homes and army and popular committee sites in Ma’rib, Jawf, Saada, Hajjah, Lahj and Dhalea provinces.