Arab Coalition in Yemen says Houthis committed 241 ceasefire violations

The Arab association led by Saudi Arabia that is active in the civil war in Yemen has documented during the last 48 hours up to 241 ceasefire violations by the Houthi militias unilaterally decreed by the coalition last April 8 and that had been set for the period of two weeks after the United Nations (UN) urged both parties to stop the offensives in view of the risks linked to the global pandemic of coronavirus, which already left during this weekend the first official case diagnosed in Yemeni territory.  

Coalition spokesman, Colonel Turki al-Maliki, explained that the Houthi militias used all kinds of light and heavy weaponry to carry out these attacks in the last hours, including ballistic missiles.

Al-Maliki demanded the truce should be respected in the current difficult moment related to the plague of COVID-19 disease, a plague that has already killed more than 112,000 people and affected more than 1.8 million around the world. The first case was detected this weekend in Yemen, a dock worker in the southern town of Al-Sheher, which forced a two-day curfew in Hadramut province.
 

At the same time, the rebels also accuse the enemy of violating the ceasefire. Thus, the Houthis have pointed out the forces of the international alliance for perpetrating a score of air offensives on the city of Marib.  

The accusations of ceasefire violations are therefore mutual. Both sides are pointing to rival attacks over the past 72 hours in the disputed enclaves of Al-Jawf and Marib (northern Yemen) and Al-Baida (central Yemen).

Also, in the port city of Hodeida, on the shores of the Red Sea, the opposing sides engaged in armed clashes and bombings in the south of the city last night, according to local sources consulted by the Efe agency. 

Both sides have been pointing out that there are significant casualties among the enemy. Thus, Yahya Sarea, Houthi military spokesperson, said in an official note that government troops have "suffered great losses in lives and equipment", and noted that there have been "dozens of dead and wounded among their ranks, without being able to advance" on the ground.

Meanwhile, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi's television station, which broadcasts from the Saudi capital of Riyadh, said that "the army achieved great victories" on the battlefronts in Sana'a province, where the capital of the same name has been controlled by the Houthi rebels dominate large areas of Yemeni territory in the west and northwest, including the capital city of Sana'a itself. 
 

The Saudi-led coalition (which includes other prominent nations such as the United Arab Emirates) set the goal of building "trust" and resuming political dialogue between Yemeni forces to achieve a "comprehensive political solution" in Yemen, something the UN has been advocating recently.  

A country in the Arabian Peninsula that has been suffering from a severe war escalation since 2014, triggered by the Houthi rebels; a Shiite armed group that seeks to undermine the internationally recognized Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi's government and is supported by the Arab alliance led by Saudi Arabia, the main representative of the rival Sunni branch of Islam and a great enemy in the Middle East of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a country that in turn sponsors the Houthis in their battle to overthrow the established executive and to stop the regional Sunni expansion commanded by the Saudi kingdom.