RIYADH — The Saudi-led
coalition carried out air strikes in
Yemen early on Sunday after the country’s Houthi rebels called a three-day truce and offered a permanent ceasefire, Saudi
media said.
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The raids targeted
Sanaa, the rebel-held capital, according to
Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ekhbariya TV,
which tweeted “the start of air strikes on Houthi camps and strongholds in
Sanaa” around midnight.
The attacks began shortly
after the Iran-backed
Houthis announced a three-day truce and offered peace
talks on condition that the Saudis stop their air strikes and blockade of Yemen
and remove “foreign forces”.
Rebel reports of
casualties could not be independently confirmed.
The Houthi truce
followed a wave of drone and missile attacks on Saudi targets on Friday,
including an oil depot near Jeddah’s
Formula One track that turned into a
raging inferno during televised practice sessions.
It was announced on
the seventh anniversary of the intervention led by oil-rich Saudi Arabia in
Yemen, its impoverished neighbor after the Houthis seized Sanaa in 2014.
The conflict has
killed hundreds of thousands of people directly or indirectly and displaced
millions, creating what the
UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The Houthis have
turned down an invitation to peace talks in Riyadh, scheduled for the coming
days, to be hosted by the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council.
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