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Children sit in a classroom of a school to which they have been evacuated from a village near Hodeidah airport amid fighting between government forces and Houthi fighters in Hodeidah, Yemen. (Reuters Photo)
The United Arab Emirates, part of a Saudi-led Arab coalition in Yemen, on Monday warned Huthi rebels to withdraw from the key port city of Hodeida as pro-government forces advance.
The "Hodeida port operation will continue unless rebels withdraw unconditionally," UAE minister of state Anwar Gargash told a press conference in Dubai.
He said the Arab coalition, which has been closing in on Yemen's strategic city, has kept the Hodeida-Sanaa road "open for the Huthi militias to withdraw".
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