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The Yemeni army’s spokesperson on Thursday regarded the Saudi-led coalition’s assault on military positions in Hodeida as “a violation that threatens the Stockholm Agreement”.
“We call on the United Nations and the sponsors of the Stockholm Agreement to condemn this attack and hold those involved accountable,” Yahya Saree added.
The Saudi-led coalition launched two drone strikes on a military position located north of Hodeida killing seven Yemeni soldiers.
Saree blasted the UN’s inaction towards the coalition’s violations to the ceasefire “encouraged it to resume air strikes in more than one place in Hodeida.”
He stated that the United Nation’s silence to such violations points out that “the international community has relieved the other party of its commitments”.
Saree urged the UN to “be clear on this issue so as not to restrain us from our right to respond” to hostilities committed by the Saudi Arabian-led coalition.
The armed conflict in Yemen that has been continuing for four-and-half years, has brought more than 22 million people that accounts to over three-quarters of the entire country's population, in dire need of humanitarian assistance or protection, of whom over eight million are severely food insecure and at risk of starvation, the UN has estimated.
The Saudi-led military aggression against Yemen in early 2015 has also wrecked the country's medical, water and sanitation systems, resulting in the outbreak of cholera and other deadly diseases. Thousands of civilians, especially children, have lost their lives either in airstrikes or fighting hunger.
Source: Yemenwatch.net
