Adding more fuel to the fire in Yemen has been a series of coordinated bombings claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), including a vehicle bomb attack in Sanaa on June 29 that killed at least 28 people.
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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.
Saudi Arabia views the Houthis as an armed proxy of its regional rival, Shiite Iran.
The city’s health chief Al-Khader Laswar said more than 100 people were wounded, and that three women and two children were among the dead.
Fighting raged in Yemen’s battleground southern port of Aden Thursday, a day after the United Nations declared its highest level of humanitarian emergency in the war-torn country.
In the adjacent Lahj province and nearby Shabwa, Saudi-led coalition warplanes carried out several overnight strikes against Al Houthi positions, residents said.
The rocket fire began before dawn when the streets were busy ahead of the daytime fast observed by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, Ahmadi said.
“More than 21.1 million people, over 80 percent of Yemen’s population, now need some form of humanitarian assistance”, United Nations spokesman Farhan Haq said.
The jets also struck Huthis in the northern Hajja province, which borders Saudi Arabia.
In Taez, Yemen’s third-biggest city, loyalist forces were searching for 1,200 inmates who made a mass breakout as the prison was captured from rebels.
Washington regards Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as the network’s most risky branch and has kept up a drone war against its leaders.
Amnesty global warned of “the high price civilians continue to pay amid the… air strikes all over the country” and accused the coalition of failing to “abide by the requirements of global humanitarian law”. United Nations officials have said the country is one step away from starvation.
UN-brokered talks between Yemen’s rivals ended in Geneva last month without producing a ceasefire deal with the exiled government blaming the rebels for halting progress towards peace.
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Human Rights Watch said in a report on Tuesday that coalition air strikes on Saada had killed dozens of civilians and wrecked homes and markets in attacks that appeared to violate the laws of war.
