The peacekeeping force is meant to support Yemen’s army and security forces until Hadi’s government rebuilds the military and security establishments in accordance with the principles established by the Comprehensive National Dialogue, the source said.
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On Thursday, fighters allied with Hadi killed 15 rebels in an attack on their checkpoints in the country’s southern Abyan province, a military source said.
However, in a televised speech on Tuesday, Abdel Malek Al Houthi, leader of the Houthi Ansarullah group, doubted that the ceasefire would hold.
The United Nations said it expects an unconditional week-long humanitarian pause in the fighting in Yemen to start on Friday to allow the delivery of assistance to some of the 21 million people in need.
“It is still going to be a challenge to have this call heeded within the next 24 hours because of the entrenched fighting on the ground”, the diplomat told Reuters.
The crossing of Al-Wadiah which has recently continued to process visas for Yemenis travelling into Saudi Arabia was closed after the raids, informed sources said.
Taiz is strategically important because it is located on a road leading to the southern port city of Aden. Sunni Saudi Arabia says it is bombing the Houthis to protect the Yemeni state.
The United Nations also said on Tuesday that it had received only 13% of the $1.6bn (£1bn) needed for its aid operation in Yemen since launching an appeal last month.
More than 3,000 people have been killed since March, when a Saudi-led and U.S.-backed coalition began launching airstrikes against the rebels who…
They pushed Hadi into exile when they advanced in March on Aden, where he had taken refuge after escaping house arrest in Sanaa.
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the second-in-command of the rebels who heads the powerful Revolutionary Council, welcomed the truce, saying he hoped it would translate into the lifting of the blockade.
“They exercise high-level trickery, even with the global community”.
“We do not want a truce of five or ten days, which we will then count by the minute”.
Iran has repeatedly condemned the Saudi-led air campaign.
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On Friday, warplanes hit rebel positions north of Sanaa and in their northern stronghold of Saada, witnesses said.
Air raids also targeted rebels in the provinces of Marib, Dhamar and Baida.
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On Monday, coalition bombing of a market in a Lahj town killed 41 civilians and six rebels, according to an updated toll from medical officials.
