Photo: Houthi rebels on the Yemeni side of Yemeni Saudi border

The Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen said Saudi air defense units intercepted multiple missiles fired from inside Yemen toward the kingdom's southwest border city of Jizan on Monday.

Ould Cheikh described the talks as arduous and hard but at the same time demonstrated optimism that an agreement would be made in the end, stressing that failure was not an option for the talks.

The pro-Saudi forces have, however, definitely gained overall on the "ceasefire" fighting, capturing multiple cities in the past week including the city of al-Hazm in the northwest. Saudi aircraft are mostly American in origin and Saudi Arabia is a US ally in the region.

Tuesday's open meeting was organized by the United States, the current council president.

Western nations have been quietly increasing pressure on Saudi Arabia to seek a political deal to end the conflict, U.N. diplomats have said.

"In September, an Indian was killed and three others were injured in mortar attacks in Saudi's Jizan region by rebels in Yemen, known as Houthis", reports India Today. "Those conversations have happened at really every level", she said.

What's more, U.S.-based companies are the number one supplier of arms to Saudi Arabia, with the State Department recently approving a $1.29 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia.

"I urgently call on the council to expedite and intensify diplomatic efforts to bring about a ceasefire and help create a framework for negotiating a comprehensive and sustainable peace in Yemen", he said.

"Sadly, it is the children who are bearing the brunt of the conflict in Yemen".

Such attacks are not isolated cases, but rather, reflect the coalition's overall approach and strategy-in which war planes indiscriminately drop bombs with "wide-area effect in populated areas", the rights group charged. "It can stay in the sky for hours, making everyone nervous".

"The potential ramifications of a failed state in Yemen would nearly inevitably create safe havens for radical and confessional groups such as the so-called (Islamic State)", Zeid told the 15-member council.

The war's impact has been horrendous on Yemen, a country of 25 million that is already the poorest in the Arab world.

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