Marib - Sana'a (Debriefer) The Yemeni UN-recognized government and Houthi group on Saturday traded blames for breaching the UN-declared truce tens of times, leaving deaths and injuries among civilians.
On the seventh day of the truce, the Houthi group stepped up its breaches of the UN truce in seven governorates, the government troops-run media center said in a statement.
The group committed 141 violations of the truce in Taiz, Hajjah, Hodeida, Marib, Jawf, Sa'ada and Dhalea governorates, the center added.
These breaches took the form of "attempted targeting of army sites with mortars in all the fronts, sending large reinforcements, infiltrations, deployment of snipers across from army sites, and pavement of roads."
According to Houthi account, two Yemenis were killed and three others were injured when government artillery fired shells at Razih district in the northern governorate of Sa'ada, the Houthi stronghold.
108 breaches were documented in Marib, Jawf, Sa'ada, Hajjah, Taiz, Dhalea and Baydha governorates, the Sana'a-based Saba quoted a Houthi source as saying namelessly.
Espionage planes were spotted as carrying out 76 spying sorties over many provinces and 3 raids on al-Barh area in Taiz, he added, as the government troops fired 8 missiles and mortars at Houthi sites in Marib and tried to infiltrate in al-Silw district in Taiz.
On 1 April, the UN envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said the parties to Yemen's war agreed on a 2-month expandable truce that was welcomed by the Arab coalition, Yemeni government and Houthis.
