Coalition violates UN-declared truce 142 times
PROVINCES, Jun. 11 (YPA) – The US-backed Saudi-led coalition forces and their mercenaries committed 142 violations of the UN-brokered humanitarian and military truce during the past 24 hours, the official Yemeni news agency Saba reported, citing a military source on Friday.
The source explained that the coalition’s violations included the flight of Apache warplanes in the airspace of Najran, in addition to 37 sorties of armed and spying reconnaissance aircraft in the airspace of Taiz, Hajjah, Jawf, Saada and Dhalea provinces, and the border fronts.
He confirmed that the coalition’s mercenaries established fortifications in al-Kadhah area in Taiz province and committed a breach by conducting an infiltration towards the sites of the army and the popular committees in the same district.
The source stated that 28 violations were recorded by artillery shelling on the provinces of Marib, Hajjah, Saada, Bayda and the border fronts.
The mercenaries targeted with artillery shelling the army and popular committees’ sites in al-Rawdah and al-Balaq al-Sharqi areas in Marib province. They also targeted the sites of the army and the popular committees west of Haradh area, al-Shabaka site north of al-Manjura, and in al-Hamdani area in Hajjah.
The source indicated that intense artillery bombardment of the mercenaries of the aggression hit the sites of the army and the popular committees in Razeh, al-Madafen,, al-Ghor and Baqem areas in Saada and the intensive artillery shelling of the mercenaries also targeted the sites of the army forces and the committees in Nate’ district of Bayda.
He pointed out that the mercenaries of the aggression targeted intensely artillery the sites of the army and the popular committees in Jabal Qamboura area in Jizan region and also in al-Shabaka area in Najran region.
The source also confirmed that 74 violations were recorded by shooting at citizens’ homes and the army and popular committee sites in Marib, Taiz, Hajjah, Saada, Dhalea, Bayda and the border fronts.
E.M