Officials failed to identify with either the rebels, known as Houthis, nor the camp of the exiled president.
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Speaking to reporters at Sanaa worldwide Airport, he said that he will speak with Houthi rebels and their allies during his visit. Eight rebels and two Hadi loyalists were killed, the sources said.
The air raids aim to stop the advances of the rebels and restore the legitimate government under President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, after the Houthi militias took control of the capital.
“We are hoping to secure a humanitarian truce quickly”, said Ahmed, “which could pave the way for a peaceful settlement of the crisis; it has turned into a catastrophe”.
The attack on the offices of the General People s Congress caused “some deaths” among employees and guards of the building in the south of the capital, party official Faeqa al-Sayed said.
Eyewitnesses and security officials said a coalition warplane fired a rocket into a busy livestock market in the southern port city of Aden Monday, killing at least 41 people.
Last week, the United Nations declared the situation in Yemen to be a “Level 3” humanitarian emergency – its most severe category – where over 80 percent of the population needs assistance.
The intensive diplomacy came amid a growing outcry over the deteriorating humanitarian situation after more than three months of air strikes on the impoverished country prompted by the Houthi advance south on an area controlled by Hadi’s government.
More than 21.1 million individuals – over eighty % of Yemen’s inhabitants – want assist, with 13 million dealing with meals shortages.
“This will not make us back down on our efforts…to create the suitable environment to cooperate with the United Nations“, she said in a statement on the party’s website.
Upwards of 2,800 individuals have been killed in Yemen since March, in accordance with United Nations figures.
It is unclear how numerous dead were were civilians or Houthi rebels who the coalition planes have been targeting.
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The house of Houthi leader Khaled al-Anduly in al-Jeraf neighborhood in Sanaa was also hit by the missiles, according to witnesses.
