Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombarded Yemeni rebels Sunday, witnesses said, in a new blow to a U.N.-proposed truce in the impoverished country where millions are threatened with famine.
Airstrikes hit the Shiite Houthi stronghold of Saada in Yemen’s north, as well as other rebel positions south of the capital Sanaa and in the southern province of Lahj, residents said.

Clashes also raged in the southern port city of Aden between the rebels and fighters allied with exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, known as the Popular Resistance.

Clashes also persisted in the central city of Taiz and in the southern Shabwa province, where the Popular Resistance said 21 of its fighters were killed in three days of clashes.

The U.N.-proposed humanitarian truce technically went into effect on Friday and is supposed to run until July 17, the last day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

But the cease-fire, much needed to rush food supplies to a population threatened by famine, has been flouted by strikes conducted by the Saudi-led coalition and fighting on the ground.

bbabo.Net