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Scores of Yemenis Killed in Clashes, Saudi-Led Air Strikes, Missile and Drone Attacks

August 8, 2018 

A Saudi-led air strike on the Yemeni port city of Al-Hudayida, August 7, 2018	Pro-Saudi militry check point in Shabwa, Yemen, August 7, 2018

 

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The following news stories are from the pro-Saudi, Yemeni website Al-Masdar ( http://www.almasdaronline.com/category/42  ):

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The Security committee for Ma'rib explains what happened in an armed attack on a security point and 17 killed, including soldiers

ALMASDARONLINE 07 أغسطس 2018

The security committee in the province of Ma'rib issued a statement on Tuesday about the incident of targeting a security point in the governorate by gunmen south of the town of Ma'rib.

Five soldiers and 12 gunmen were killed in clashes that erupted at the Falag Point, south of Marib city, on Tuesday morning.

According to the security committee in Ma'rib, an armed gang opened fire at the point at 7 a.m., killing five security personnel, including the commander of the checkpoint, and injuring seven others.

The security point was forced to respond to gunfire, killing 12 gunmen and injuring seven others and arresting three, the statement said.

It had established a commission to investigate the incident and had also stressed the increase in security readiness.

Sources to “almasdar  Online" said that the gunmen were aboard two "Hyluxe" Cars and two "Jeep" vehicles, led by Hamad bin Mohammad Shajea al-waili from Sa'ada Governorate.

The commander of the security point was killed in the attack, Lieutenant "Moqbil Al Ramadi".

Tension in Shabwah following clashes between government forces and the Shabwani elite in Ataq

ALMASDARONLINE 07 أغسطس 2018

Two members of the government forces were wounded in clashes Tuesday afternoon between members of the UAE-backed al-Shuwaniyah elite forces  and soldiers following the axis of Ataq, central capital of the province, "central Yemen."

A source close to the commander of the Ataq axis said to "Almasdar online"  that the elite forces had stopped one of the crews of the Ataq axis at the southwest entrance of Ataq, capital of the province, on Tuesday noon.

While heading to his duty station at the axis, Brigadier Aziz Al-a'tiqi went to the elite point and assured them that the vehicle followed the axis of Ataq and asked for permission to pass.

"After allowing the passing of the vehicle, the soldiers were surprised to be shot by the soldiers of the Shuwaniyah elite," he added.

He pointed out that clashes ensued, injuring two government troops, who were taken to the Ataq hospital, while the city was in tension between the two sides, especially since the incident was the second one by soldiers of the point, according to sources.

5 security forces and 12 armed men killed in clashes between the two sides in Ma'rib

ALMASDARONLINE 07 أغسطس 2018

Five security forces and 12 gunmen were killed, and several others injured in a reciprocal clash on Tuesday in Marib, " the eastern city of the capital of Sanaa", a security source said.

The source told the almasdar online that the clashes broke out between the two sides at the Falg point, 15 kilometers from the southern entrance of the city of Marib, which is under the control of the Yemeni government.

He noted that a convoy of armed men refused to stop at the checkpoint and insisted on passing over the point.

According to the source, the soldiers at the checkpoint forced the convoy to stop, but the gunmen--wanted security in a drug-trafficking ring--assaulted the soldiers and killed the commander of the checkpoint before violent clashes erupted between the two sides.

He added that the clashes resulted in the death of 12 gunmen and the wounding of seven, three others were arrested, five security soldiers were killed in the checkpoint and others were injured with varying wounds.

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The following news stories are from the pro-Houthi website Yemen Extra (http://www.yemenextra.net/):

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Yemenis cause the coalition heavy losses with missiles in al-Jawf

Aug 7, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

The Yemeni army forces ired on Tuesday Katyusha missiles on coalition-backed paid fighters in Jawf province, a military source told YemenExtra.

Army launched Katyusha missiles on gatherings of the paid fighters in al-Hijl valley of al-Masloop district, inflicting them heavy losses in lives and equipment.

The coalition has been striking Yemen since March 2015 to restore power to Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed and wounded at least 600,000 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.

Despite the coalition’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters,part of the Yemeni army forces, the coalition’s bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

According to several reports, the campaign against Yemen has driven the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster, as the coalition’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.

Dead as Hodeidah resists a new coalition offensive

Aug 7, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

By Yousra Abdulmalik

The US backed-Saudi-led coalition  launched an offensive on Hodeidah in the largest battle of the war that the United Nations fears risks triggering a famine in Yemen where an estimated 8.4 million people are on the verge of starvation as the Yemeni army forces keep responding to its constant offensive.

A child was killed and a citizen was injured by the coalition paid fighters in Hodeidah province.They launched an artillery shell to a farm in Duraihmi district, killing a child and wounding a citizen.

The coalition warships destroyed a building near a Historic castle on the coastal line in Howk district.

The Yemeni air forces ,on the other hand, conducted drone strikes on the coalition paid fighters in Yemen’s western coast, that hit the coalition command center in Ambarah military camp, and huge explosions were heard inside the center, hitting their target accurately, and killing and injuring dozens of the paid fighters, including military commanders.

Artillery force of the Yemeni army forces , for its part, shelled gatherings of the coalition paid fighters, killing and wounding scores of them during the shelling in Tuhaita district of Western coast front.

On Monday, the Military Media published scenes of the qualitative luring operation carried out by the Yemeni army forces, which drew several battalions of paid fighters of to a deadly point. The scenes showed that the Yemeni forces burning and destroying several military vehicles and armored vehicles with guided missiles, improvised explosive devices and other guided weapons.

A southern commander in Amalekia Brigade revealed ,yesterday, said that the UAE has abandoned a full battalion after it was trapped by the Yemeni army for 3 days in Drehemi district of Western Coast Front.

The official spokesman of Ansarullah, Mohamed Abdul Salam, on Tuesday commented on the relationships and ties between the United Arab of Emirates (UAE) forces and the terrorist organization al-Qaida in Yemen, saying that the coalition is in desperate need of paid fighters, and this need led the UAE to build a relationship with al-Qaida and it deepened its relation which is sponsored by Washington.

A mass march took place, yesterday afternoon, in Hodeidah province, under the slogan “Your crimes will not pass and our blood will prevail. In the demonstration, they raised slogans condemning the crimes of the coalition and its paid fighters, which lasted more than three years. The most recent was the massacre in the fishermen’s market and the General Revolution Hospital in Hodeidah.

Hodeidah is a strategic port city which should be supporting more than 20 million Yemenis. It should be the source of at least 70 percent of all imports to Yemen,” Suze van Meegen, a protection and advocacy adviser with the Norwegian Refugee Council, told AFP. The US backed-Saudi-led coalition has been eager to retake from Yemeni joint forces control, according to Yemeni officials.. But the former UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheik, warned against attacking the port city over potential catastrophic consequences to Yemen last year. Martin Griffiths, the new special envoy to Yemen, echoed the same concern over attacking Hudaydah at the UN Security Council .

Abdulmalik al-Houthi, the leader of the Houthi(Ansarallah)  movement, which is the main force that faces the coallition, said on a TV speech ,” 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.

The Bab el-Mandab Strait, which is the southern entrance to the Red Sea, is one of the world’s key shipping lanes for crude oil and allows crude exports into the European market.

The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF,  has warned that a fresh cholera outbreak is spreading quickly in Yemen’s vital seaport of Hodeidah, amid ongoing attacks by the coalition against the besieged provincial capital.

“Over a year after cholera broke out in Yemen, killing more than 2,000 people, the disease is back and spreading fast in … Hodeidah,” said the UN agency in a report yesterday, adding that port city has been “a target of continued airstrikes” by the so-called coalition in an attempt “to regain control of the city.”

Humanitarian organizations have warned that the Hudaydah operation threatens to cut off essential supplies to millions of Yemeni people. More than 70 percent of Yemen’s imports pass through Hodeidah’s docks.

Martyrs, Wounded on Bombing of Aggression Battleships in Hajjah

Aug 5, 2018,  YemenExtra

A number of citizens were killed and other wounded, on Saturday evening, as a result of the bombing of the US-Saudi aggression against residential areas in Abss district of Hajjah province the battleships of aggression targeted the homes and farms of citizens in Umm Al-Thab village of Abss district

Eyewitnesses said that the residents of the village of Umm al-Thab were surprised at seven o’clock on Saturday evening by heavy rocket fire targeting the houses of the village, resulted in a number of martyrs and wounded who were driven to hospitals in the city of Abss

Local medical workers reported that there were still missing victims and had not been found so far

The residents condemned the US-Saudi aggression targeting of their homes and properties and committing the most heinous crimes against children and women

These crimes are committed on daily basis by the US-Saudi aggression against civilians in the West Coast amid international silence.

Here is what proves AP report about Yemen , al-Qaeda

Aug 7, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

BY Yousra Abdulmalik

The southern areas controlled by the US backed -Saudi led coalition are witnessing chaos, insecurity and the spread of the Takfiri groups with expansion of their activity. Besides the increasing of assassinations, bombings and clashes between elements fighting for influence among them.

Unknown gunmen assassinated a military commander ,today evening ,in the southern city of Aden.Local sources said that unknown gunmen on a Helox vehicle fired one of the bullets at the commander of the air force in the former province of Al-Muhara, Col. Qassim Thabet Al-Hajili, while passing through a neighborhood in Khor Maksar.

In addition, citizens of a paid fighter group were killed after being kidnapped from a street in the market in the city of Taiz. According to local sources in Taiz,  the armed elements were wearing masks ,believed to belong to Al Qaeda and Daesh, kidnapped one of the paid fighter recruited who belong  to the so-called sector I in the 22nd Brigade Makiya, named “Mustafa Ahmed Said” from al-Sameel market today noon .

Futhermore, citizens found the body of a citizen killed in mysterious circumstances with traces of torture in the Rabwa district of Radfan district in Dhala province.Witnesses said that they found the body of the dead man this afternoon, which is located in the area of ​​Rabwa line between the districts of Radfan and Yafa, pointing out that they could not identify the body so far.

In a new security achievement for the Yemeni security services, the security men of Sana’a and Al-Dhala , controlled by the Yemeni army forces, succeeded on Tuesday in arresting 23 paid fighters , belonging to the coalition forces ,while trying to head to Marib to join the camps of the coalition.

A security source in Sana’a province confirmed the arrest of three paid fighters, one of them in the Saffan district, after the investigations proved that he was monitoring for the coalition, while two paid fighters were arrested in the Directorate of the Russian Federation while trying to go to Marib to join the paid fighter camps.

In Dhala, the security services of the Department of Demet arrested twenty 20 conscripts of the coalition, during the past two weeks, while traveling from and to camps of the coalition.

The security of the province said that all of them have military cards issued by the camps of the paid fighters.

This comes after the security forces seized in Hodeidah province a dangerous cell recruited by the coalition to support the forces of the coalition from inside the city of Hodeidah and destabilize security and stability.

Aden city, which was occupied by UK but now under the control of UAE, and the rest of the southern cities witness an insecurity situation that increased the assassinations of Imams of mosques and security and military leadershipsThe province of Aden also witnesses a security fiasco that escalated with killings, looting issues , in addition to others that never happened before.

The UAE took control of Aden under the pretext of confronting the so –called “Houthis” , part of the Yemeni army forces and supported the establishment and formation of armed elements  there.

A few months ago, Emirati-backed forces were fighting and killing Saudi-backed forces in Aden. The south is moving towards outright autonomy The entrenchment of a war economy is another significant obstacle to peace.

A new investigation by Associated Press has found that the coalition waging a war on Yemen has secured secret deals with al-Qaeda terrorists in the violence-wracked country, recruiting hundreds of its militants in the ground operations against the Houthi Ansarullah movement , part of the Yemeni army forces.

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