Saudi-led coalition violates UN-declared truce in Yemen 163 times

Saudi-led coalition violates UN-declared truce in Yemen 163 times

The Saudi-led coalition forces and their mercenaries committed 163 violations of the UN-brokered humanitarian and military truce, during the past 24 hours, the official Yemeni news agency Saba reported on Monday, citing a military official.

According to the official, the coalition’s violations  included 55 flights of armed reconnaissance and spy planes in the airspace of Ma’rib, Taiz, Hajjah, Jawf, Saada, Dhalea and Bayda provinces and the border fronts.

He confirmed the aggression forces created combat fortifications around the city of Ma’rib.

“Over 90 violations were monitored with intensive shootings at the citizens’ houses and the army and popular committees’ sites in Ma’rib, Taiz, Hajjah, Saada, Dhalea, Bayda and the border fronts, the official said.

He added that 17 violations were recorded with artillery shells by the mercenaries of the aggression on Marib, Hajjah and Saada provinces and the frontier fronts.

The mercenaries targeted with intense artillery the sites of the army and popular committees in al-Balaq al-Sharqi in Ma’rib province, in Hiran, Bani Hassan and Haradh areas in Hajjah province and in al-Mata’an, al-Hamaki, al-Dahrah, and Jadub al-Shabaka areas in Saada province.

The  mercenaries’ intense artillery shelling targeted the sites of the army and popular committees in al-Batoul, al-Azhor, Jabal al-Amoud and Wadi Jarah in Jizan region, and Jabal al-Omda and al-Shabaka in Najran region.