Cross border assaults from Yemen have intensified since the suspension in early August of United Nations -brokered peace talks between the Shiite Huthi rebels and their allies, and Yemen’s globally-recognised government, which has the military support of a Saudi-led coalition that is Arab.
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Armed men loyal to the Houthi movement hold their weapons as they gather to protest against a Saudi-led coalition air strike that hit a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Yemen, in the capital Sanaa August 16, 2016.
From Yemen, a rocket fired on Saturday killed a three-year old boy in Najran, where shelling attacked a power station a day before.
The same sources also said that GPC representatives had refused to join the Houthi delegation due to differences between the two groups.
UN-sponsored negotiations to end 18 months of fighting in the impoverished country on Saudi Arabia’s southern border collapsed earlier this month.
In talks in Jeddah this week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the conflict had gone on too long and needed to end.
Among the casualties was the wounded mother of a boy who was killed Monday, Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ekhbariya TV channel reported, citing the kingdom’s civil defense agency.
The Saudi-Yemeni borderline has been witnessing rising clashes between Saudi troops and Houthi militants in recent months.
Yemen has been ravaged by civil war since late 2014, when Houthi rebels overran capital Sanaa and a number of other provinces, forcing President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and his Saudi-backed government to temporarily flee to Riyadh.
Yemen’s internationally recognised government, based in Saudi Arabia, has made similar demands but insisted that the Houthis fulfil all those measures before any new government was formed.
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Since March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition of mostly Persian Gulf countries have been carrying out airstrikes against the Houthis at Hadi’s request.
