Saudi-led War Coalition Continues to Strike Yemen
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The so-called humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen has ended with the resumption of Saudi-led air strikes on the poor country, despite United Nations envoys' calls for an extension of the truce.
Coalition airstrikes in several neighborhoods of the port city of Aden, Yemeni security officials told the Associated Press when the ceasefire expired at 11:00pm on Sunday.
"They began bombing Aden a few minutes ago," an army commander loyal confirmed.
Reports from the ground said explosions could be heard near the airport and the districts of Khor Maksar and Crater.
The bombardment resumed despite UN calls to extend the humanitarian pause which has largely held in the country since.
"I call on all parties to renew their commitment to this truce for five more days at least," UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said shortly before the resumption of air campaign. "This humanitarian truce should turn into a permanent ceasefire."
On Saturday, Johannes van der Klaauw, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, said Saudi Arabia's harsh inspection process is obstructing the flow of humanitarian aid into war-wracked Yemen.
"The arms embargo and its inspection regime results in commercial goods, be it by air or by ship, no longer reaching the country," he pointed out.
Saudi Arabia started military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which currently controls the capital, Sana'a, and other major provinces, and to restore power to Yemen's fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Riyadh.
According to Yemen's Freedom House Foundation, the Saudi airstrikes have claimed the lives of 3,979 Yemeni people so far while more than 6,887 others have been wounded.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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