Yemen's Houthi rebels accused Saudi Arabia and its allies of endangering a fragile truce around Hodeidah with strikes on four rebel targets north of the key aid port. "The intensive raids on Hodeidah are a serious escalation that could torpedo the Sweden agreement," one of the rebels' leaders, Mohammed Abdulsalam, said, referring to the UN-supervi...
Yemen's Houthi rebels accused Saudi Arabia and its allies of endangering a fragile truce around Hodeidah with strikes on four rebel targets north of the key aid port.
"The intensive raids on Hodeidah are a serious escalation that could torpedo the Sweden agreement," one of the rebels' leaders, Mohammed Abdulsalam, said, referring to the UN-supervised truce agreed outside Stockholm in December.
Thursday's strikes were the first reported against the Iran-backed rebels since they claimed a twin attack on Saudi Arabia's oil industry last weekend that Washington and Riyadh have blamed on Tehran.
"The [Saudi-led] coalition will be responsible for the consequences of this escalation and we'll be watching the UN stance on this situation closely," Abdessalem added, in comments reported by the rebels' Al Masirah television.
The coalition destroyed four sites outside Hodeidah used by the rebels to assemble remote control vessels and marine mines, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
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