Saudi Arabia on Friday strongly condemned the Houthi militia attack on UN truce monitors in Yemen. A convoy carrying head of a UN mission tasked with overseeing a peace deal in Yemen's Hodeidah port was shot at by the Iran-backed militia on Thursday. Denouncing the incident on Friday, Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the United States Khalid Bin Salman tweeted: "KSA strongly condemns the targeting of UN personnel by the Iran backed Houthi militia in Yemen, who have violated their signed commitments in Stockholm and continue to flout International Law and escalate their aggression against the Yemeni people." The UN said one round of small arms fire struck a UN-marked armored vehicle that was carrying chief monitor Patrick Cammaert. "Patrick Cammaert and team are safe in Hodeidah following reported shooting incident," the office of the spokesperson for the UN chief tweeted on Thursday.Cammaert arrived in the Red Sea port city on Dec. 22 to head the committee overseeing implementation of a ceasefire and troop withdrawal deal reached at peace talks last month in Sweden between the Houthis and the Yemeni government. The UN Security Council approved on Wednesday the deployment of up to 75 observers to Hodeidah for six months to monitor implementation of the deal, which was the first significant breakthrough in peace efforts in five years.
