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Iran is prepared to admit Yemenis injured in the Saudi attacks on Yemen for treatment, the head of Iran’s committee to support Yemeni people said on Sunday, as the Saudi-led coalition has stepped up airstrikes on Yemen in violation of a UN-brokered humanitarian ceasefire. 

"During 108 days of Al Saud’s aggressions against Yemen, we have been witnessing severe losses [inflicted on] the people of the country," Esmaeil Ahmadi Moqaddam said in a press conference in Iran’s Tehran on Sunday.

He said that over 3500 people, mostly women and children, have been martyred and 15,000 others injured in the Saudi-led attacks.

Moqaddam emphasized that from the beginning of the Saudi aggression, Iran announced its readiness to admit Yemeni victims for treatment.

Unfortunately though, he added, the transfer of Yemenis to Iran has not been possible to date because of the Saudi blockade of Yemen.

Saudi Arabia has been bombarding different areas in Yemen since March 26-- without any authorization from the UN-- and heedless of international calls for the cessation of its deadly airstrikes against the impoverished country.

The UN-brokered pause in the fighting was meant to last a week to allow aid deliveries to the country’s 21 million people who have endured over three months of Saudi-led bombing.

In the latest attack, Saudi-led air strikes killed 21 civilians in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, on Monday.

A Houthi leader, Saleh al-Samad, described the continued Saudi raids as presenting "a clear challenge to the international community to shoulder its responsibilities and seriously try to stop this aggression".