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Fighting continued Tuesday between Hadi forces and fighters of the Houthi movement in Yemen at the start of Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
The fighting during Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, witnessed no temporary cease-fire, giving exhausted citizens zero chance to celebrate peacefully away from random shelling and explosions.
In the Red Sea coast city of Hodeida, ferocious battles raged between Houthis and forces loyal to former Yemeni president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi in Durayhmi and other surrounding areas.
Local sources told Xinhua that the Houthi revolutionaries mobilized more fighters and launched counter-offensive attacks against the pro-regime forces in Durayhmi.
He said that the Hadi forces failed to seize full control over Durayhmi district despite the withdrawal of Houthis from the government institutions.
Earlier in the day, warplanes of the Saudi-led Arab coalition launched airstrikes and targeted arms depots belonging to the Houthis near Durayhmi.
The airstrikes bombed a warehouse containing locally-manufactured weapons and missiles, causing a series of explosions at the scene, an army commander said.
The intensified fighting is taking place just two weeks ahead of a new round of peace negotiations between the Yemeni warring factions sponsored by the United Nations in Geneva.
Local Yemeni observers said that the continuing fighting shows that there is no clear path toward the success of next negotiations, and the warring factions have no desire in ending the three-year long war.
The impoverished Arab country has been locked into a war since 2014.
Saudi Arabia with other Arab countries launched a military campaign and began pounding the capital Sanaa in March 2015 in response to a request from Hadi to forcefully reinstate his resigned regime.
The internal military conflict between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed Hadi regime recently entered its fourth year, aggravating the suffering of Yemenis and deepening the world's worst humanitarian crisis in the country.
The ongoing fighting between the two warring rivals with daily Saudi-led airstrikes plunged the most impoverished Arab country in the Middle East into more chaos and violence.
Three quarters of the population, or more than 22 million people, urgently require some form of humanitarian help, including 8.4 million people who struggle to find their next meal.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
