Saudi-led coalition admits its losses at the hands of Yemeni joint forces
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In response to the Saudi-led coalition constant airstrikes , the Yemeni joint forces carried out military operations, foiled advances, kill and wounded many, destroyed mechanisms and so on on the past 24hours.
The Saudi-led coalition media admitted falling of four of its soldiers dead in fronts beyond border ,as well as twoof its paid fighters fell dead.
They targeted gatherings of the paid fighters , leaving direct injuries amid them and exploded the paid fighters with an explosive device that led to killing one of them and wounding others in Najran front.
They also aimed gatherings of the Saudi soldiers and paid fighters with artillery shelling and shot dead two of the paid fighters in Asir front.
They , in addition, targeted gatherings of the Saudi soldiers and their paid fighters , causing direct injuries in Jizan front.
The engineering unit destroyed a mechanism , loaded with paid fighters, killing and wounding all on board in AL-Jawf front.
Notably, they foiled an advance , as a reslt dead and wounded amid the paid fighters’ ranks were reported in AL-Baida front.
A statement issued by the Yemeni war media said that they targeted gatherings of the paid fighters with artillery shelling and shot dead three of them in Midi front.
To conclde it with Lahj front where they killed a paid fighter.
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.
“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.
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.