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| Houthi rebels shelling residential neighborhoods in Taiz |
| 2015-08-22 |
| [YEMENONLINE.INFO] Dozens of Yemenis were killed and injured Thursday in Taiz city by Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... shelling against residential neighborhoods. According to medical sources and residents, anti-Houthi Arab coalition raids also "hit civilian houses by mistake." A medical source told Anadolu Agency that the corpse count in Taiz stood at 23 civilians, including 13 children. Forty other civilians were maimed in the bombing, some of them in seriously, the source added. According to residents, some of the mortar and tank shells hit Shib Sleyt in Osifra, a residential neighborhood that has no military presence from forces loyal to the country's elected President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi. Some of the artillery rounds hit a group of children who were playing in front of their homes, just before sunset. Local residents interviewed by an Anadolu Agency correspondent said that other shells fired by Houthis, from their position in al-Hawban area, east of Taiz, targeted Osifra power plant, which went up in flames. "The shells showered Ammar bin Yasser district, and smoke plumes were seen rising from some of the houses," the local source said. For the past three days, the Houthis have been carrying out an unprecedented level of shelling on residential neighborhoods in Taiz, especially in areas that they have been pushed back from by the local resistance groups, which recently took back 95 percent of the city from Houthi forces. The Houthis are currently stationed on the eastern side of the city after having been pushed out of the central regions. On Thursday evening, Saudi-led Arab coalition warplanes carried out six air raids on Houthi positions in Salah, according to eye witnesses. The local eyewitnesses told an Anadolu Agency correspondent that the six air raids targeted Salah, which has turned into a Houthi military base, but some of the rockets missed their targets and hit residential houses, killing dozens of civilians. |
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