After Three Years of War, Southern Border of the Kingdom Seems Bleak
YemenExtra
Report: Shefa’a Abdullah
Three years after the beginning of the aggression attack against Yemen, the picture of southern border of the kingdom seems very bleak , unlike what it shows for Ansarullah. The fighters are stationed on the outskirts of Najran, waiting for any signal to break into it, controlling the strategic positions in Jizan, preventing the Saudi forces from recovering their “prestige”.
In Sa’ada province Saudi crews with traces of bullets roaming the streets of the city which located in the northernmost of Yemen,carry the slogan “Royal Land Forces” but carrying Ansarullah militants, moving and going to the “Qhat” markets at noon, some of them wearing military uniforms for the Saudi border guards. Daily scenes are familiar to residents of the province, but they reveal what these fighters are doing behind their country’s borders, and in the Saudi depth of Najran and Jizan, over three years.
Bombardment and continuous flight of the modern F-35, F-16, Apache, Dron, Cluster, Fragmentation, Fission and other bombs did not constitute a barrier against Ansarullah,where they are today in the outskirts of Najran, 65 km north of Saada province.
“The heroes of the army with committees now control 18,000 square kilometers in Najran and during the three years of the war they destroyed 127 tanks of the Saudi army from the Abrams and Bradley,other many armored vehicles, crews and bulldozers, as well as broke into 180 sites distributed among command centers, towers control and stores for weapons” ” Ansarullah leader,Mohammed al-Qaili said.
“The city of Najran is from its north and south west, surrounded by groups of the Yemeni army and committees, so the city became between pliers, and when instructions from the leader of the Yemeni revolution Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi break into it, it will only take us hours,” Al-Gaili said,the added “every Saudi site is invaded, followed by a withdrawal to its surroundings, because aviation targets it with a series of raids, and after a few days it is pushing new Saudi units to relocate there, in our turn we renew the attack and crush the force inside it.”
The highest peak in Jizan,
In 2009, Ansarullah had took control of Al-Dod, Al-Dukhan and Al-Rumih mountains in Jizan, when Saudi Arabia supported the Sana’a regime in its sixth war on Sa’ada. At the time, 79 Saudi officers and soldiers were killed and 20 others were captured. The movement’s fighters did not withdraw from the mountains except by stopping the war in agreeing with Ansarullah on safe and disarmed areas between Yemen and the Kingdom.
With the start of the Saudi-led “coalition” war, the movement regained control of these mountains, which are still under its control today.
“The mountain of al-Dukhan is not a mountain, but a mountain range,the highest peak is called Jabal al-Dukhan, most of which is located southwest of the city of Al-Khouba, in Jizan” the leader of Ansarullah, Abu Mutahar al-Qahum, says .
” Saudi Arabia has developed about 40 military sites, including four main positions as command, control and operations, All these sites have come under the control of the Yemeni army and committees. “added al-Qahum.
The fall of al-Rumaih, al-Dukhan, and al-Dod mountains were a severe blow to the Saudi forces because this mountain chain , according to the emphasis of the al-Qahum, looks at dozens of Saudi towns and villages.
“After the control , we managed to impose total fire control on the Western Khawba plain completely, at a distance of 20 kilometers, and from Jabal al-Dod, which extends over the town of al-Khouba from the north-west.” added that dozens of Saudi officers and soldiers were killed in this mountain range, we”the Yemeni army” also have been able to seize large quantities of light arms, ammunition and crews equipped with modern machine guns. ”
Human and physical hemorrhage,
A continuous war of attrition for the Saudi army for three years, during which the Kingdom did not issue official statistics on the number of dead, wounded and prisoners of its forces, and the presentation of the princes of Najran, Asir and Jizan, officials.
During the period from 1 January 2018 to 18 March, military reports monitored the funeral of 87 officers and soldiers killed in the southern border of Saudi Arabia, while unofficial statistics indicate “the killing of 5,000 officers and a Saudi soldier during the war.”
On the level of material losses, the US Defense One finally revealed that “Saudi Arabia plans to buy 150 Abrams tanks, replacing the tanks it lost in the southern border.” Earlier this month, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed a memorandum of understanding to buy 48 British Typhoon fighter jets worth about 10 billion pounds (about 14 billion dollars),after Yemen’s cross-border fronts were able to shoot down a number of Allied aircraft, with old defenses returning.