The United Nations on Sunday condemned an attack in Yemen’s disputed Hodeidah governorate that killed five civilians including a woman and child.
UNMHA, the mission overseeing a fragile peace deal in the Red Sea coastal area, did not specify the source of the attack that hit a house in Al Hawak residential area late on Saturday.
It said in a statement that the district had witnessed increasingly intense exchange of fire in recent months between the Saudi-led military coalition that backs the internationally recognised government and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.
Sources said the house was struck by Houthi mortar fire.
The Hodeidah pact reached at U.N.-sponsored peace talks in 2018 had stipulated a redeployment of troops from both sides but it was never fully implemented, though a truce had largely held.
Violence has escalated elsewhere in Yemen, especially in Marib, the government’s last stronghold in northern Yemen where intense battles have raged.
With Reuters
