(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Saudi Arabia said its ceasefire offer is conditional on the rebels reciprocating and not exploiting it for military advantage.
Saleh's political party, the General People's Congress, said it hoped the proposal would minimise the "impact of the aggression that has burdened the Yemeni people with unprecedented suffering and an unparallelled blockade".
Riyadh said the rebels had crossed a "red line" with deadly shelling of populated border areas of the kingdom last week.
Assiri told AFP that Saudi artillery again pounded positions inside Yemen after rocket fire wounded four women in the kingdom on Sunday.
Saudi-led forces will continue to retaliate against targets over the border until the 2000 GMT Tuesday ceasefire "if they continue to fire their rockets towards our cities, our population," Assiri said.
Clashes also raged between rebel and pro-Hadi forces in the main southern city of Aden, killing civilians and fighters including prominent Hadi loyalist Haitham al-Adani, medics and military sources said.
The newly formed Aden Alliance for Popular Aid said in a statement the city urgently needed food supplies, medicines, field hospitals and fuel, as well as "safe corridors" in disputed areas so the wounded can be evacuated.
Aircraft from coalition partner the United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, airdropped 55 tonnes of humanitarian aid in Aden, state news agency WAM reported.
In Shabwa province farther east, an apparent US drone strike killed four Al-Qaeda suspects, a military official said.
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