A hard-won truce in the battleground Yemeni city of Hodeida will collapse if rebel violations persist and the United Nations does not intervene, the Saudi-led coalition said on Wednesday. “A total of 21 violations since ceasefire commencement have come to our notice,” a coalition source told AFP on condition of anonymity. The observers of the UN-chaired Redeployment Coordination Committee are due to oversee the withdrawal of the warring parties from the city, including a rebel pullout from the docks. Hodeida residents reached by telephone said there was complete calm in the city on Wednesday morning following intermittent gunfire during the night. The conflict has also pushed 14 million people to the brink of famine in what the United Nations describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Source: Egypt Independent December 19, 2018 12:11 UTC