Yemen air force conducts strikes with drones in West Coast front

YemenExtra

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The Yemeni joint forces’  air force ,Tuesday, targeted US-Saudi-backed paid fighters’’ sites in Taiz province, a military official told YemenExtra.

The air force targeted the paid fighters’ air defenses and rooms of commanding and controlling.

On Saturday, the air force also launched a high-quality air operation on Abha International Airport in the southern province of Asir.

US-Saudi-led Coalition launched a large-scale operation in Hodeida which remainsthe only lifeline for more than 13 million and the gateway to the majority of its aid-dependent population ,it offers a window into the nation’s dire plight, 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.

Sayyad Abdulmalik al-Houthi, the leader of the Houthi movement, which is the main force that faces the coallition, said on a TV speech on Sunday,” The decision of invading the Yemeni ,western coast, has been taken and adopted by the United States of America,noting that the Saudis are trying to abolish Yemen’s freedom,” stressing that it was the people of Yemen’s right to defend their country.

 A source in the Yemeni defense ministry said in a statement that Yemeni forces manage to repel the UAE-led offensive, which has lasted for two days, destroying 20 US vehicles and managing to seize arms left by paid fighters,and  reiterating threats that the western coast front in Yemen will witness many surprises.

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.