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Alwaght- It looks like that the war has just begun for the Yemenis as nine months after the start of the Saudi Arabia’s aggression against Yemen, they have talked about adopting the first phase of their strategic choices against Riyadh. They noted that over 50,000 Yemeni forces were positioned ready to take control of two cities of Jizan and Asir south of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, pointing to the Yemeni forces’ capabilities, the observers have advised Al-Saud regime to take Ansarullah movement’s warning into account.
The Yemeni sources have announced on Thursday that 50,000 Ansarullah forces as well as the Yemeni army's were ready to launch attacks and liberate the large cities of Asir and Jizan from the Saudi hold. The first stage of the adoption of the “strategic choices” is coming in response to the ongoing Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes on Yemen, according to Ansarullah movement.
The three cities of Jizan, Asir and Najran are located north of Yemen and it has been almost a century that the Al Saud regime has occupied them. In 2000, the kingdom has officially annexed the cities to its territories based on a deal reached with Yemen’s central government. Since the beginning of Riyadh’s invasion of Yemen, Ansarullah’s forces have set advancing deep into the Saudi territories, as part of their strategic choices, high on their agenda.
The Yemeni forces, in past few months, have launched relentless attacks against the Saudi military installations in the southern region, leaving many of the Saudi forces dead. Though the global mainstream media have chosen to be silent about Saudi Arabia’s southern regions’ developments, the images published by Ansarullah movement about its forces’ operations in southern Saudi regions and their capturing of the kingdom’s military headquarters indicate that the Saudi military, which is considered as one of the world’s most expensive armies, has received serious defeats in the border area conflicts.  A video recently aired by the Ansarullah-run news channel Al Masirah showed that the Yemeni forces were moving close to al-Khuba town in Jizan province, and they had gained control of several state buildings. Pointing to the heavy blows inflicted on the Saudi regime’s forces by the Yemenis in southern Saudi Arabia, the observers have advised Riyadh not to ignore Ansarullah’s threats. Haykal Bafana, the Sann'a-based Yemeni political analyst and media activist who at the same time is seen to be a critic of Ansarullah, has posted on his Twitter page that “if I was Salman [Saudi Arabia's king], I’d take this latest Houthi statement very seriously, before the Saudi-Yemen border treaty of 2000 goes up in smoke.”
In time with the threats, the Yemeni missile forces have hit the Al-Faisal airbase in Asir region using a Qaher-1 ballistic missile type. A military source has suggested that the missile has hit its target precisely. Additionally, the Yemeni forces have fired an array of missiles, targeting gathering point of Saudi military forces in al-Khazra border gate in Najran. At the same time, Iran’s Al-Alam news network has reported that Yemen’s military forces along with the popular committees’ fighters have crossed into Saudi Arabia’s territories in the al-Harath region which is part of Jizan province. They managed to take control of several military posts, as they destroyed munitions storehouses. Also in al-Ramza region, located in Jizan province, Yemen’s joint forces have destroyed another munitions stockpile, as they, besides, torched a couple of Saudi military vehicles.
In addition to the southern regions, the Yemeni forces have carried out attacks on the Saudi-led Arab coalition forces in a series of different regions of Yemen. Ansarullah’s fighters along with the Yemeni army have captured Al-Hagar al-Aswad region in Yemen’s Al Jawf province. As a result, hundreds of Saudi Arabia as well the UAE’s military forces have been caught up in a siege. Furthermore, Colonel Sharaf Qaleb Luqman, the official spokesman for the Yemeni army has noted on Thursday that the country’s army missile units and the popular committees’ forces had launched several Katyusha rockets on Wednesday night, targeting the invasive forces’ gathering in Al-Anad air base in Yemen’s Lahij province. In an interview with Saba, Yemen’s official news agency, colonel Luqman has said that the air base was hit after highly precise intelligence surveillance was performed and especially that according to the data obtained, the invasive forces had intentions to make advances to Taiz city with full equipment and based on a precise blueprint.