Saudi-led coalition commits 283 violations in Hodeidah cease-fire: Army Spokesman

SANAA, Feb.  26 (YPA) – The Saudi-led coalition and its militias have committed 283 violations of UN-brokered cease-fire in Hodeidah over the past 72 hours, Yemen’s army spokesman Yahya Sarie said in a statement on Tuesday.

“The violations included 128 artillery shells and 111 shooting of various medium and light weapons that targeted houses and farms of the citizens in several districts and Hodeidah city,” Sarie said.

The spokesman confirmed that the army monitored 19 reinforcements operations and establishing 9 new fortifications of the militias toward several areas in the province, while the Saudi-led coalition warplanes and reconnaissance aircraft continued to fly intermittently over the sky of Hodeidah city and a number of districts.

Sarie added that the militias carried our four attempts to infiltrate toward army’s sites in Hais district.

He added that the coalition warplanes waged 49 raids on separate districts of Yemen’s provinces.

The spokesman said the coalition’s ongoing violations would obligate Swede agreement, holding the coalition the full responsibility for an attempt to fail the cease-fire.

Sameera Hassn