Coalition air strikes pummel Yemen despite rebel truce
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The Saudi-ledcoalitionlaunchedairstrikesSunday onYemenhours after Huthi rebels announced a three-daytruce, with the UN chief condemning a surge in violence as the war enters its eighth year.
The raids targeted Sanaa, therebel-held capital, according to Saudi Arabia's Al Ekhbariya TV, which tweeted "the start ofairstrikeson Huthi camps and strongholds in Sanaa" around midnight.
The attacks began shortly after the Iran-backed Huthis announced a three-daytruceand offered peace talks on condition that the Saudis stop theirairstrikesand blockade ofYemenand remove "foreign forces".
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Just a day earlier, the rebels had fired drones and missiles at 16 targets in Saudi Arabia, turning an oil plant near Jeddah's Formula One track into a raging inferno as aghast drivers looked on.
The flurry of attacks and diplomacy came asYemen, the Arab world's poorest country, on Saturday marked seven years since the Saudi-led intervention against the Huthis, who seized Sanaa in 2014.
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The conflict has killed hundreds of thousands of people directly or indirectly and displaced millions, creating what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday condemned the sudden rise in hostilities.
He said that eight civilians, including five children and two women, were reportedly killed in retaliatorystrikeson Sanaa following Friday'srebelattacks.
The UN staff compound in the city was also damaged, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.
"The Secretary-General strongly condemns the recent escalation of the conflict inYemen," the statement said, adding that Guterres is "deeply concerned" about reports ofcoalitionattacks on the lifeline port of Hodeida.
He urged the warring parties to "immediately de-escalate" and reach a "negotiated settlement" with the help of Hans Grundberg, the UN's special envoy toYemen.
Thousands of people demonstrated in Sanaa on Saturday, holding placards and chanting, to denounce the Saudi-led intervention which included nine countries when it was launched on March 26, 2015.
Today, it is largely just Saudi Arabia and, to a lesser extent, the United Arab Emirates, which says it has withdrawn troops fromYemenbut remains an active player, training militias on the ground.
Thecoalition's intervention has stopped the Huthis' advances in the south and east of the country but has been unable to push them out of the north, including Sanaa.
"Militarily, the war is now at stalemate," Elisabeth Kendall, a researcher at Oxford University, told AFP this week.
Saudi Arabia "may at this point be keen to extract itself" fromYemen, she said.
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