Al Houthi breaches fray Hodeida truce deal

Cairo: Yemen’s Iran-aligned Al Houthi militia has mounted a series of attacks on military and residential sites in the port city of Hodeida, further violating a UN-brokered ceasefire deal there, military sources said Sunday.

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Yemeni government forces on Saturday foiled a militia attack in which heavy and medium weapons were used on the district of Tahita in the southern section of Hodeida, a field military source said.

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“The joint forces managed to repulse the attack and inflicted on them heavy casualties and losses in hardware,” the source added.

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Al Houthi militiamen, meanwhile, shelled residential and farm areas in the district of Hees also in southern Hodeida, Yemeni news portal Adan Al Ghad reported without giving specific casualty figures.

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Last December, the Yemeni government and Al Houthis reached a UN-brokered deal on a ceasefire in Hodeida. The pact, signed in Sweden, has since faltered over Al Houthi intransigence and breaches.

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Al Houthis seized Hodeida in late 2014 when they overran parts of Yemen, plunging the impoverished country in a ruinous war.

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Hodeida in western Yemen is strategically important because of its key port through which most Yemen’s imports and aid enter.

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