Rival sides in Yemen’s year-long conflict have begun a tentative truce. The U.N.-brokered ceasefire took effect from 2100 GMT Sunday.

Yemeni fighters loyal to exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi wait in their pick-up trucks on a road in the Sirwah area, in Marib province on April 9, 2016. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

Government forces supported by a Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi rebels have both said they are committed to the halt in hostilities. But there were pockets of deadly fighting in the hours leading up to the ceasefire. More than 6,200 people have been killed and two million displaced in more than a year of fighting. Talks aimed at ending the conflict are due to begin April 18 in Kuwait.

This is the fourth ceasefire since March last year, when the Saudi-led coalition began air strikes in support of the government.

“We hope that this truce will be a serious truce and it will be reliable, I mean from all parties, and that peace will prevail in the country. This is a real rescue for the poor and the needy who are not surviving the civil war, with the planes raining down on them and killing innocents,” local resident Adbullah Zawqri said.

“We look forward to there being, God willing, a cease-fire implemented and we hope for peace, but for Saudi and the traitors and their agents, we don't hope for any credibility from them, because this is just talk and they are our enemies and with this truce their talk increases but so do their airstrikes and attacks,” local resident Mohammed Al Amri said.