Continuous violations – a cruise missile kills a child and wounds his parents in Taiz

The Houthi terrorist militia continues its brutal crimes against civilians in Taiz, while the legitimate government is committed to a truce and making concessions to bring peace.

On Friday, Houthi militias targeted an entire family in al-Dhubab, a town in the only vital artery leading to Taiz, which has been under a tight siege for seven and a half years.

A local Yemeni source said that Houthi militias fired a shell at the house of the rural family in Al-Sailah residential village in the town, killing a five-year-old child and critically wounding his parents.

It said the Houthi bombing killed 5-year-old Mahmoud Hashem Ali instantly, while his mother Souad Ahmed Abdo, 35, and father Hashim Mohammed, 40, were seriously wounded.

The Houthi targeting of civilians comes as an UN-backed humanitarian truce enters its sixth consecutive week, amid persistent Houthi violations.

Earlier this month, 10 soldiers and civilians were killed in a Houthi air attack in Taiz, while official statistics recorded 40 dead and injured, including 11 civilians, in separate Houthi attacks targeting the besieged city.

Last Thursday, the Yemeni government affirmed its positive response to the initiative of the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy and its pledges to fly from Sanaa airport to Jordan during the truce period to give the Yemeni people, who were held hostage by the Houthis, the opportunity to travel through Sanaa airport with passports issued from areas under the control of the coup.

The Yemeni government has made many concessions to make the humanitarian truce work, but Houthi militias have continued to stab and violate it, often endangering civilian lives and death in their brutal eight-year record.