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Saudi Warplanes Strike Yemeni Cities Again Despite Ceasefire Claim

Saudi Warplanes Strike Yemeni Cities Again Despite Ceasefire Claim
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By Staff, Agencies

Saudi warplanes targeted a number of areas across Yemen overnight despite a so-called ceasefire that the Riyadh-led coalition of aggressors announced itself.

Yemen’s al-Masirah TV network said the warplanes bombarded Wadi Dhahr area of the Hamdan district in the capital, Sanaa, as well as an area close to its hospital three times in the early hours of Thursday.

It added that Saudi warplanes carried out strikes against Aroush and Watda areas of Khawlan district, Sanaa Province.

The strikes also targeted Madghal city in the central province of Marib as well as Harf Sufian city in Amran Province two times, the report added.

The airstrikes were carried out despite claims by the invaders that they were halting military operations in support of United Nations peace efforts and to avoid further spread of the new coronavirus in Yemen.

The Yemeni army, however, reported days afterwards that it had been forced to repel several Saudi-led assaults on various fronts in just one day.

Meanwhile, Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionary movement dismissed the ceasefire claim as “false and misleading”, saying the Saudi-led coalition had even escalated their offensives against the country.

Riyadh and its allies have been widely criticized for the high civilian death toll resulted from their bombing campaign in Yemen since early 2015.

At least 80 percent of the 28 million-strong population of Yemen is reliant on aid to survive in what the United Nations has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

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