YEMEN Press Agency

Sanaa records 2,764 violations of UN armistice by coalition in 29 days

SANAA, May 02 (YPA) – The Saudi-led coalition forces continued on Sunday to violate the humanitarian and military truce in Yemen under the auspices of the United Nations, committing 2,764 violations during the past 29 days.

A military source explained that the violations committed by the coalition forces during the past 24 hours amounted to 117, including 50 sorties of armed reconnaissance and spy planes in the airspace of the provinces of Hajjah, Jawf, Saada and Hodeida, and the fronts beyond the border.

The source stated that 3 violations with creating fortifications were recorded in the areas of Qasat Al-Sudais, Al-Sakina and Al-Diwan in Najran region, in addition to 16 violations by artillery shelling, and firing four Katyusha rockets on the army and popular committee sites in Jawf.

The coalition forces also targeted with artillery shelling the sites of the army and popular committees in Al-Madafen area in Saada, Haradh and Al-Mazraq area in Hajjah, Al-Khasf in Jawf, and Al-Sarh, Al-Baqa’a and Al-Majidat in the fronts beyond the border, according to the source.

The source also confirmed that 48 violations by shooting at citizens’ homes, army positions and popular committees were recorded in the provinces of Marib, Taiz, Jawf, Saada, Hajjah, Dhalea and the border fronts.

 

YPA