Malak Faisal says goodbye to his mother every day in case she doesn't come back.
- Our house is in the neighborhood of al-Rawda, near the front line in front of the snipers.
We have to go to school but we put ourselves in danger every day, she told the AFP news agency.
Taiz is Yemen's third largest city with around 600,000 inhabitants.
Houthi rebels have besieged the city since 2015 and control the main roads in the province of the same name.
The UN is in talks with the Houthi rebels to open them up.
But so far the talks have yielded no results.
Teacher Ishraq Yahia sees the ceasefire as a failure.
The siege remains and students are still being hit by snipers, she tells AP.
- I hope we get a real truce.