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A delegation from the Houthi Ansarullah movement which will participate in Geneva consultations headed to Oman’s capital of Muscat on Saturday.

The delegation was to meet in Muscat with the United Nations [UN] Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed to discuss the dialogue draft proposed by the body as a prelude for the start of the Geneva consultations.

 

Yemen has been under relentless airstrikes by Saudi Arabia since March.

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country since March 26.

The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.

The attacks began in a bid to restore power to fugitive former Yemeni president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia, and to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement that is currently resisting the aggression.

Over 2,615 civilians have been killed in the conflict in the last six months, according to the UN. Yet, other organization put the death toll at much higher. According to the Yemeni health ministry, the death toll from the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen so far is more than 6,000, adding that 1,277 of those killed were children.