Saudi-coalition committed 105 armistice violations in past 24 hours
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The Yemeni people have not felt the implementation of the armistice.
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Yemen has been devastated by a war waged by the Saudi-led coalition.
Within the past 24 hours, the Saudi-led coalition of aggression, along with its mercenaries, has committed 105 violations of the humanitarian and military armistice, according to a military official on Saturday.
According to the official, there were 37 violations which included flying armed reconnaissance and spy planes in Marib, Hajjah, Al-Jawf, Saada, Sanaa, and Al-Dhalea provinces.
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One of the breaches of the armistice was noted when foreign mercenaries were spotted making fortifications around Marib.
The official noted that the coalition made two more violations, where a reconnaissance drone launched an airstrike towards Al-Fakher supermarket, in addition to the sites of the Yemeni army and the popular committees in the Al-Sawiyat area in Bab Ghuluq in Al-Dhalea province.
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Furthermore, the military official pointed out that 17 violations were recorded by artillery shelling of various medium and heavy weapons. The aggression targeted Marib, Saada, Hajjah and other areas.
The mercenaries bombed the Yemeni army and the popular committees with mortar shells in the Shada area of Saada province, west Haradh in Hajjah, and in Wadi Gara.
Saudi-led coalition committed around 14,000 truce violations in Yemen
As of yesterday, Al Mayadeen counted 13,859 violations of the armistice in Yemen committed by the Saudi coalition.
Yemen has been under war led by the Saudis for eight years now. A UN-brokered truce went into force in April but was repeatedly violated by the Saudi-led coalition.
The UN special envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, announced recently that the Sanaa government and the Saudi-led coalition have agreed to renew the armistice in Yemen for two months.
About 3,947 violations were committed by the forces affiliated with the Saudi coalition during the second month of the truce that ended yesterday evening, Thursday, and 5,395 violations during the first month of the truce itself, which included dozens of air raids with reconnaissance aircraft of the Saudi coalition on army and committee sites as well as civilian homes in a number of Yemeni governorates and border fronts.
The Yemeni air defenses were able to shoot down 4 combat drones of the Saudi coalition during the second month of the truce while they were carrying out hostile actions in the airspace of Yemeni regions.
The Yemeni forces also shot down a Turkish-made Karyal drone belonging to the Saudi Air Force, on May 21, and a Chinese-made armed drone belonging to the Saudi Air Force with a locally-made "surface-to-air" missile, on May 23.
