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At least 10 people were killed in Saudi-led air strikes overnight in Yemen, relatives and medical sources said, as the coalition continued bombing the capital on Sunday in violation of a temporary humanitarian ceasefire.

A family of eight traveling in several vehicles were killed in a Saudi-led air strike on Saturday night in the central province of al-Baida, and two other civilians were killed in the southern city of Taiz in Yemen.

The Saba news agency said that 12 people, including two children, were killed in Saudi-led air strikes across the country. Saba said the air strikes also hit clinics linked to the military hospital in Sanaa as well as trucks carrying food supplies in southern Aden.

Saudi-led warplanes also bombarded Yemen at dawn on Sunday, witnesses said, in a new blow to a UN-proposed ceasefire in the impoverished country where millions are threatened with famine.

Airstrikes hit in Saada in Yemen’s north, as well as south of the capital Sanaa and in the southern province of Lahj, residents said.

The UN-proposed humanitarian truce technically went into effect at 2059 GMT on Friday and is supposed to run until July 17, the last day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

However, the cease-fire, much needed to rush food supplies to a population threatened by famine, has been flouted by airstrikes conducted by the Saudi-led coalition.

The UN-brokered ceaefire came more than a week after the United Nations declared Yemen a level-3 humanitarian emergency, the highest on its scale, with nearly half the country facing a food crisis.

More than 21.1 million people - over 80 percent of Yemen’s population - need aid, with 13 million facing food shortages, while access to water has become difficult for 9.4 million people.