Alwaght - Constant Saudi airstrikes against Yemen continues
to inflict a heavy toll on innocent civilians despite calls for an end to
Riyadh’s deadly aggression against the impoverished Arab country.
On
Friday, at least three members of a family were killed in a Saudi airstrike on
a house in the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa’ada.
Saudi
warplanes bombarded a Yemeni residential area in the district of Sahar in the
city of Sa'ada. The Saudi jets also bombed a school and a health center in the
same province.
Saudi
warplanes targeted the district of Harad in the northwestern Yemeni province of
Hajjah. There has been no report on the possible casualties or damage due to
the attack.
Late on
Thursday, the Saudi jets conducted airstrikes in the southwestern province of Aden,
where dozens of civilian targets, including a hospital and the Aden
International Airport, were hit.
Saudi
jets also pounded the premises of the Yemeni Foreign Ministry, a mosque, and an
airbase in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
Saudi airstrikes against Yemen have also left a
child dead and seven others wounded in the capital city of Sana’a, as Riyadh’s
military keeps violating a UN-backed humanitarian ceasefire.
The casualties came after Saudi jets bombarded
al-Anasi District and al-Zahra Mosque in Sana’a on Thursday, Lebanon’s al-Ahed
news website reported.
The building of Yemen’s Foreign Ministry,
al-Dulaimi military airbase and Sana’a International Airport had also been hit
in the Saudi air raids hours earlier, but no reports on casualties and the extent
of damage were available, Yemen’s al-Masirah TV reported.
Elsewhere, Saudi fighter jets attacked a
mosque, a school as well as health and trade centers in the Munabbih district
of Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada.
Two
women were killed as Saudi jets hit residential areas in the northwestern
Yemeni province of Sa’ada.
Meanwhile, Saudi Apache combat helicopters
fired 14 missiles into the Shada and al-Manzala districts of Sa’ada. They also
targeted al-Hesameh District in western Sa’ada with artillery.
The TV channel further reported that the Saudi
warplanes carried out attacks on Mualla District in the southern Yemeni
province of Aden.
The Saudi jets targeted the al-Rabat street as
well as the al-Basatin and Dar Sad districts in Aden more than twenty times.
The attacks come as the Yemeni army and the
popular committees rejected the claims that the port city of Aden had
fallen into the hands of militants, adding that they advanced in
al-Mansoura District in Aden Province and gained control of the areas bordering
al-Mansoura.
Yemeni resistance retaliates
In
response to the latest Saudi attacks, the Yemeni army along with Ansarullah fighters
targeted a Saudi military base in Jizan in the southwestern part of Saudi
Arabia.
The Yemeni army
destroyed the watch tower of Al-Hasira military base in Jizan.
The Yemeni forces
have also hit al-Moazab military base with 10 missiles and al-Khoube military
base with 6 missiles.
Yemeni Army
Spokesman Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman said in a statement that the missiles
hit and destroyed the target in precision attacks.
The Yemeni army, backed by popular committees, has also
carried out a retaliatory missile attack on a military base in Saudi Arabia’s
southwestern border city of Najran.
The Yemeni
forces fired four missiles on the military base late on Saturday night.
The
attack was launched as Saudi regime raids on Yemen continued with airstrikes on
the city of Harad in the northwestern Yemeni province of Hajjah and the
district of al-Ghayl in the northern Jawf province.
Earlier
in the day, fighting raged on in the southern city of Aden where the Ansarullah
fighters sought to push back forces loyal to fugitive former President Abd
Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who are struggling to gain control of Yemen’s second city.
According to witnesses, clashes are continuing in the central parts of the port
city.
Aden has
for months been the scene of heavy skirmishes between Ansarullah fighters and
pro-Hadi forces.
Furthermore,
Dozens of Saudi-backed militants have
been reportedly killed during clashes with Yemeni forces in the
southwestern province of Lahij.
The
Saudi-backed terrorists were killed during clashes with Yemeni forces,
including Ansarullah fighters, near the area of al-Anad Triangle in Lahij on
Sunday, Yemen’s al-Masirah television reported.
A
Saudi-backed commander fighting against the Yemeni forces was also
injured in the clashes, the Yemeni TV said.
In a
similar development, the Yemeni army forces along with popular committees
killed hundreds of Saudi-backed terrorists and militants belonging to
al-Qaeda in the southern city of Aden on Saturday. The Yemeni forces also
arrested dozens of militants and seized the military equipment belonging to
them.
Mohammed
Abdulsalam, a spokesman for
Ansarullah movement, on Sunday rejected as “mere lies” recent reports that
militants loyal to fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, have
advanced in Aden.
Abdulsalam
emphasized that Yemeni Ansarullah fighters managed to foil attempts by
Saudi-backed elements to capture Aden, and took full control of the affairs in
the strategic city.
The
development comes as areas across Yemen are witnessing no respite
from airstrikes by Saudi regime.
Riyadh
started its brutal military campaign against Yemen on March 26 – without a UN
mandate – in a bid to undermine the Ansarullah movement and to restore power to
Hadi.
According
to a UN report last week, at least 1,670 civilians have been
killed and another 3,829 people injured in the Saudi military
campaign since March 26.
According
to other sources the death toll is almost triple the number reported by the UN.
