There is no advance for the Saudi-led coailtion : Yemeni official

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The Yemeni joint forces carried out many military operations against the Saudi-led coalition’s fatal airstrikes on April 9 , 2018. Saudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement and reinstate former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime. The Arab kingdom has also imposed a blockade on its impoverished neighbor, causing a dire humanitarian situation. 

According to AL-Masirah net, the Saudi-led oalition admitted the killing of four Saudi soldiers in fronts beyond border at the hands of the Yemeni joint forces.

A ballastic missile ( Qaher M2) was fired on gatherings of the paid fighters and Sudanese army , and an advance was foiled , as a result big losses were reported in Jizan front, it added.

They also exploded and destroyed two tanks belonging to the coalition , so nine of the paid fighters lost their lives , targeted gatherings and sites of the Saudi armt and paid fighters with a missile ( Zelzal1) and a number of artillery shelling, and shot dead a Saudi soldier in Najran front.

The Yemeni war media reported that they pounded gatherings of the Saudi army and paid fighters with artillery shelling in Asir front.

They , in addition, killed four and injured two others in AL-Baida front.

Notabaly, they took the lives of two of the paid fighters in Marib front.

They shot dead 11 of the paid fighters , killed and wounded over 30 Sudanese paid fighters , while the rest fled. Additionally, they carried out offensive operations against them , causing dead , wounded and big losses and foiled an advance , as a result big losses in lives and ammunitions were reported in Taiz province.

They destroyed two mechanisms ,loaded with the paid fighters, killing and wounding a number of them in Lahj front.

To conclude it with AL-Jawf front , they destroyed a mechanism with an explosive device and kiled a paid fighters in AL-Jawf front.

The coalition has killed 14,291 civilians. Among the 14,291 killed victims are 2,086 women and 9,148 men, according to statistics approved by the Legal Center for Rights and Development.

The number of wounded has reached 22,537, of which are 2,284 women and 17,384 men, who have to accept their new reality of no longer being capable of living a normal life

Moving on to recheck on the damages inflicted by the Yemeni infrastructure, reports indicate that the Saudi regime targeted, with American intelligence support, 15 airports, 14 ports, 2,425 roads and bridges, 179 stations and power generators, 688 water tanks and networks, 410 stations & communication networks, 1,761 government institutions and 41, 3297 destroyed and damaged houses.

According to the latest statistics published by the Legal Center for Rights and Development, nearly 269 chicken and cattle farms have been bombed. In addition and amid an unprecedented famine witnessed in Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition struck 307 factories, 609 commercial markets, 6,912 business establishments, 722 food stores, 596 food tankers, 349 fuel stations, 262 fuel tankers and 3,757 transporters

Almost everything is a target in Yemen, including service facilities, whereas the most recent statistics report the bombing of 903 mosques, 309 hospitals and health centers, 869 institutions and schools, 141 university facilities, 264 tourism facilities, 112 sports facilities, 35 media establishments, 216 archeological sites and finally, while imposing a fatal siege on Yemen, 2,654 agricultural fields targeted.

“Hodeida should be supporting more than 20 million Yemenis. It should be the source of at least 70 percent of all imports to Yemen,” Suze van Meegen, a protection and advocacy adviser with the Norwegian Refugee Council, told AFP.

Earlier this month, the US Congress voted against a resolution that sought to end America’s support for the war.

Last week, the administration of US President Donald Trump approved weapons sales to Saudi Arabia totaling more than $1 billion, despite growing pressure from rights groups to halt arms deals between the West and Riyadh.

Amnesty International has slammed the United States, Britain and France for their continued arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The UK-based rights group said the arms sales have been an “enormous harm to Yemeni civilians” over the course of the war.

In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of its regional allies — mainly the united Arab Emirates and Jordan — started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people later, the war has yielded little to that effect.

As if it weren’t bad enough that Hodeidah and its environs are among the most severely harmed by the blockade and the threat of famine, the civilians living there are also at risk of being bombed for no reason. There is no excuse for bombing this house and killing these civilians. This attack is a gross violation of international law and a war crime, and the governments responsible for it should be held accountable. This is what the coalition does with the refueling and weapons that the U.S. provides them. Refueling coalition planes just makes it easier for them to carry out more outrageous attacks like this one. Secretary Mattis tried arguing the other day that refueling gives coalition pilots more time to make better decisions about where to drop their bombs, but that ignores the reality that coalition governments have routinely shown blatant disregard for civilian life throughout the war. This latest attack is just the latest example out of the thousands and thousands of strikes on civilian targets that the coalition has carried out.

At the same time Mattis made his statement, a $1 billion weapons deal to Saudi Arabia was announced on the same day. Along with the $100 billion weapons deal signed between Washington and Riyadh last year, this will obviously further empower Saudi’s military campaign on Yemen, which Mattis supposedly wants to end.