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Saudi jets violate ceasefire minutes after it began

Tuesday, 12 May 2015 10:25 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 12 May 2015 10:27 PM ]

Smoke billows following a Saudi airstrike in the capital Sana’a on May 11, 2015. (AFP Photo)

Saudi Arabia violates a ceasefire in war-torn Yemen just minutes after its commencement in the impoverished Arab country.

Saudi jets carried out four raids in the southwestern Lahij province, the eastern Hajjah province, and the northwestern Sa’ada province late on Tuesday.

The truce was proposed by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir last week. Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has announced its cooperation in any actions that will stop suffering in the country.

Saudi Arabia started its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which currently controls Sana’a and other major provinces, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Riyadh.

According to the latest UN figures, the Saudi military campaign has so far claimed the lives of over 1,400 people and injured close to 6,000 people, roughly half of whom have been civilians.

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