{"id":25870,"date":"2018-12-17T12:23:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T12:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25870"},"modified":"2018-12-17T12:23:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T12:23:43","slug":"yemens-war-clashes-continue-in-hodeidah-ahead-of-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25870","title":{"rendered":"Yemen’s war: Clashes continue in Hodeidah ahead of ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clashes have continued in Yemen’s flashpoint city of Hodeidah for a third day, despite a UN-brokered ceasefire that is expected to go into effect at midnight local time (21:00 GMT) on Monday.<\/p>\n

Residents reported intermittent bouts of violence in the city’s southern neighbourhoods on Monday, with gunfire and missiles being exchanged overnight between pro-government forces and Houthis rebels.<\/p>\n

“Although the violence stopped this morning, it broke out again,” Kamal Abdul Ghani, a local resident, told the Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n

The pro-Houthi Al-Masirah television network reported that government forces had targeted the city’s southern neighbourhoods, with four people, including a child, reportedly injured in the attack.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera could not independently verify the report.<\/p>\n

The clashes in Hodeidah, a lifeline for millions of Yemenis facing starvation, began on Friday after the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government agreed to cease fighting and withdraw their troops, after a week of consultations in Sweden that ended on December 13.<\/p>\n

The week-long negotiations were the first between\u00a0Yemen’s internationally recognised and Saudi-backed government of President\u00a0Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi\u00a0and Houthi rebels.<\/p>\n

Ceasefire to start on Tuesday<\/h2>\n

Yemeni Foreign Minister Khaled al-Yamani confirmed on Sunday that the ceasefire would go into force early on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

According to the UN, both parties will withdraw from the city within 21 days\u00a0and international monitors will be deployed.<\/p>\n

A prisoner swap involving about 16,000 inmates is also expected to be completed before January 20.<\/p>\n

Yemen<\/a>, the Arab world’s poorest country, has been devastated by a multi-sided conflict involving local, regional and international actors.<\/p>\n

The conflict in Yemen began with the 2014 takeover of the capital, Sanaa, by Houthi rebels, who toppled the government of Hadi. A Saudi-UAE-led coalition allied with Yemen’s internationally recognised government has been fighting the Houthis since 2015.<\/p>\n

Since then, more than 60,000 people have been killed in the fighting and as many as\u00a0<\/span>85,000 children<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>may have starved to death.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking on Sunday at an event in the Qatari capital, Doha, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that if Yemen’s humanitarian situation did not improve, 14 million people would need of food aid in 2019, six million more than this year.<\/p>\n

“There is a high level of hunger in Yemen,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The fact that famine was not yet declared does not in any way diminish our huge concern with the very high level of hunger that exists in Yemen with a number of people dying in very dramatic circumstances.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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