Yemeni joint forces responses after assassinating their president
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The Yemeni joint forces keep responding to the Saudi-led coalition constant airstrikes that have been lasting for three years through killing and wounding many of its paid fighters, destroying its tanks, seizing its weapons , and so on on Saturday , 28, 2018.
Their missile force fired 8 ballastic missile- Badr 1-on economic targetes in Jizan sector, according to a military official
They launched Zelzal 1 missile on gatherings of the Saudi soldiers ,and targeted gatherings of the paid fighters with a salvo of Katysha missiles in Najran front, it added.
They foiled an advance of the paid fighters , leaving dead and wounded , while the rest of them fled in Lahj front, it confirmed.
They also shot dead 3 of the paid fighters in AL-Jawf front.
To conclude it with AL-Baida front where their engineering unit killed and wounded many of them through exploding an explosive device.
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.
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