On the day before the implementation of Sweden's cease-fire agreement, the two-warring sides stepped up their military operations and exchanged heavy artillery shelling in Hodeidah's neighborhoods.
According to eyewitness, the Houthi group started deploying gunmen and transporting dozens of containers to block main roads in the city center and other areas.
Two days ahead of the cease-fire, fierce armed confrontations broke out between the two-warring sides in different areas of Hodeidah, causing casualties.
The Houthis launched a large military campaign and seized the capital Sanaa in late 2017 along with other main provinces, forcing Yemen's president and his government to flee into the southern port city of Aden.
A Saudi-led Arab military coalition intervened militarily and began pounding the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa in March 2017 in response to an official request from the internationally-recognized Yemeni government.
The internal military conflict between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government recently entered its fourth year, aggravating the suffering of Yemenis and deepening the world's worst humanitarian crisis in the country.
The ongoing fighting between the two warring rivals with daily Saudi-led airstrikes plunged the most impoverished Arab country in the Middle East into more chaos and violence.
Three quarters of the population, or more than 22 million people, urgently need some form of humanitarian assistance, including 8.4 million people who struggle to find their next meal.
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