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| Soddys hammer several provinces in Yemen |
| 2016-08-18 |
| The Saudi-led aggression on Yemen has reached its extreme madness after escalating its operations against the civilians in the various provinces. The Riyadh's hirelings pounded on Tuesday Serwah district of Mareb province with artillery shells, a local official was quoted by SABA news agency as saying. The official added the hirelings intensified shelling on houses and farms in different areas in Serwah causing huge damage to the areas. The Saudi fighter jets launched on Tuesday tens of air raids on Taiz province, a local official said. The fighter jets targeted a large water tank in al-Qawaeda Akbosh village in al-Ahkom area with many air raids and destroyed it completely. Some 20,000 people in the villages of al-Ahkom area were bringing their drinking water from the tank, the official said. Moreover, the Saudi jets waged four air raids on the governmental compound in Samee district causing huge damage to the compound. The Saudi fighter jets targeted Mocha city with four raids and caused great damage to houses and private and government facilities. The Saudi warplanes hit on Tuesday two houses in Majaz district of Sa'ada province, a security official said. The hostile warplanes targeted Dhayan districts with four air raids in Majaz district, destroying the two houses completely. More from Al Arabiya, including video footage of the Festivities Saudi-led coalition forces have bombed Houthi militia sites close to the border cities of Najran and Jazan. Among the bombed targets, were shells, rockets launchers and vehicles in addition to groups of militiamen who were present in the caves and valleys. The coalition warplanes recently bombed Houthi fighters from Yemen seeking to infiltrate Saudi Arabia. Tuesday, a rocket fired by Yemeni rebels killed seven civilians inside Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the civil defense agency said. It was the highest reported number of civilian casualties in the kingdom's south since a Saudi-led coalition intervened 17 months ago in Yemen. The escalation in violence was one of the worst since peace talks began in Kuwait in April between Yemen’s government and the Houthis to end a 16-month conflict that has left more than 6,400 people dead, nearly half of them civilians, and displaced more than 2.5 million. A truce that began in April has slowed the momentum of fighting, but violence continues almost daily. Prospects for progress in the talks dimmed further this week when Houthi rebels and their allies in the political party of former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, announced they had decided to form a political council to unilaterally rule the country. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 The Houthis have brought this on themselves. Now Saudi Arabia has begun to level anything of value in their provinces of Sa'ada, Al-Jawf and Mareb, and in the Shiite villages of north Amran and Hajja. In a drought-prone region the destruction of water infrastructure alone will bring great hardship to Houthis. |
| Posted by: Glairong Sforza7574 2016-08-18 10:08 |