The coalition has said that the ceasefire requested by Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to facilitate the planned peace talks in Switzerland would start at noon local time (0900 GMT) on Tuesday.
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Forces loyal to Hadi, supported by Saudi-led coalition air strikes, and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have battled each other since March.
Incidentally, while Abdel Salam stated that the Houthi delegation will discuss the resolution at the peace talks in Switzerland while the ceasefire is in effect back in Yemen, the rebels haven’t confirmed their acceptance to its terms.
The latest deaths come ahead of UN-brokered peace talks set to take place between the warring parties in Switzerland on Tuesday.
Residents said war planes launched two raids on the village of Bani al-Haddad, in the northern Hajjah province on the border with Saudi Arabia, killing 13 people and wounding 20 others.
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The rebel forces, who control the capital, have yet to say if they will abide by the truce. Neither agency said how the two were killed and it was not immediately clear if it was the same attack as the one that targeted the secret coalition headquarters.
Fierce fighting between the rebels and pro-Hadi forces continued on Monday in the southern Daleh province, witnesses said.
“We are in constant coordination together with the General People’s Congress party, and we will all go with a national will aimed at stopping the aggression and lifting the siege”, he said at the news conference.
The warring sides have agreed to talks despite protracted differences, including over UN Security Council Resolution 2216, which calls for rebels to withdraw from key cities and surrender their weapons. The slain fighters have been part of the Saudi-led alliance in that has-been fighting the Houthis since Mar.in a punishing conflict in that has value almost 6,000 lives, half of them civilians, ravaged the nation’s infrastructure & brought much of the country’s population of 21 million to the sting of hunger.
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On the same day, Yemen’s Houthi-linked Al-Maseera television channel reported that Houthi militiamen had successfully carried out a missile attack on Jizan International Airport in Saudi Arabia’s western city of Jizan.
