ADEN, Yemen, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Clashes erupted between the Houthi rebels and units of the joint pro-government Yemeni forces in the country's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Thursday, a military official told Xinhua.
The local military source said on condition of anonymity that "the Houthis carried out two simultaneous armed attacks and targeted sites of the pro-government forces in the northeastern part of Hodeidah."
He said that the pro-government forces engaged in intense armed confrontations with the Houthi attackers and succeeded in aborting the rebels' attacks.
The source confirmed that the armed confrontations that continued for hours killed and injured an unknown number of fighters among the two sides.
Meanwhile, media outlets linked to the Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group accused the Saudi-led coalition and Yemen's government forces of committing 93 recent breaches of Hodeidah's cease-fire declared by the United Nations in 2018.
The group's media reports indicated that "the cease-fire breaches included 13 artillery shelling attacks and 80 violations through firing rockets and other shells" against the Houthi-held areas in Hodeidah during the past days.
Hodeidah has seen a shaky cease-fire between the government forces of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the Houthi rebels since both sides reached a UN-sponsored truce in Stockholm in December 2018.
Part of the strategic port city is under control of the Houthi rebels, while the government forces have advanced to the southern and eastern outskirts.
Yemen has been mired in civil war since late 2014, when the Iran-backed Houthi group seized control of much of the country's north and forced the Saudi-backed government of Hadi out of the capital Sanaa. Enditem
