High tension between Saudi-led coalition, Yemeni joint forces in battlefronts
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On May 28, Yemeni joint forces keep responding to the Saudi-led coalition’s war that 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.
The Yemeni war media said that ,they foiled three advances , leaving dead and wounded in #Asir.
They also foiled an advance and exploded a number of explosive devices , killing and wounding a number of them and targeted gatherings of the Saudi soldiers with artillery shelling in #Jizan.
They , in addition, targeted gatherings of the Saudi army and its paid fighters , leaving dead and wounded in #Najran.
Notably, they fired a ballistic missile-Qaher 2M- on gatherings of the coalition’s elements , carried out successful operations that led to killing and wounding a number of them in addition to destroying 15 military mechanisms and foiled an advance , killing and wounding a big number of their enemy and destroying two military tanks and three mechanisms in # the West Coast Front.
They , furthermore,targeted gatherings of the paid fighters with artillery shelling , causing direct injuries in # Lahj.
To conclude it with # AL-Jawf , where they killed three paid fighters .
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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