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A humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen has failed to take hold after Saudi-led warplanes resumed air strikes in Yemen on Tuesday, military sources said.

The temporary five-day humanitarian ceasefire that began on Monday was declared by the Saudi-led coalition. 

However, Saudi-led air strikes targeted north of Aden, Yemen’s second city, military sources said.

Three air raids also targeted near Sabr, north of Aden, military sources said.

Raids also struck in nearby Lahj province.

An overnight air strike also hit in Marib, east of Sanaa, witnesses said.

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out airstrikes against Yemen since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.

Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a United [UN] Nation mandate - in a bid to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia, and to undermine Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement which is currently responding to the attacks on the country.

Based on UN figures, over 3,261 people have been killed, 1,670 of whom were civilians in the Saudi onslaught.