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30 Yemenis Killed in Two Days, on Both Sides, Including 8 Civilians in Saudi-Led Air Strike

May 27, 2019 

Yemeni children, the main victims of the war, file, May 27, 2019	A Houthi drone, file, May 27, 2019

 

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

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Saudi-led Coalition spokesperson accuses Houthi militias of targeting civilian installations

May 27, 2019, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٧ مايو ٢٠١٩

Al-Houthi militias are targeting Saudi civilian installations and objects, said the spokesman for coalition forces in Yemen, Lt. Col. Turki al-Maliki.

Al-Maliki said in a statement published by the Saudi Press Agency, the kingdom has the right to self-defence, adding that "the Houthi terrorists will pay a heavy price."

"At 7:00 and fourteen minutes (0714) on Sunday morning, the Saudi Royal Air Defense Force managed to intercept and shoot down a drone plane carrying explosives launched by the Houthi terrorist militia to try to target King Abdullah Airport in Jizan, which is used by thousands civilian citizens and residents daily without any respect for international humanitarian law and its customary rules, which gives special protection to civilian objects, "al-Maliki explained," that the Houthi terrorist criminal tool targets civilian installations and civilian property, and none of their objectives have been achieved, and has been detected and dropped, and as we assert our legitimate right to defend our country, we also affirm that the terrorist Houthis will pay a high price. "

Clashes continue in Taiz, dead and wounded on both sides

May 26, 2019, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٦ مايو ٢٠١٩

Clashes on the outskirts of the city of Taiz continued on Sunday between the legitimate government forces and the Houthi gunmen.

The clashes broke out on the Western front and heard explosions and gunfire between the two sides, field sources said.

The sources said that the dead and wounded were killed on both sides by clashes and cross-shelling, while one officer and three soldiers of the government forces were confirmed dead, government forces said their shells targeted a gathering of the Houthis and killed nine of them.

According to the sources, the dead were government forces (Capt. Tayeb Mohamed Ali Sarhan, soldiers ' Samid Saeed Abdullah Hassan, Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed Mahjub, and a third soldier, Ayman Farhan, and the two soldiers, Abdulaziz Yahya Abdullah al-Sabbri, and Nabil Saeed Ahmed Radman were injured).

Al-Houthi militias have been shelling using artillery and tanks since dawn last Friday on residential neighborhoods and positions of government forces north and east of Taiz city.

According to a field source, the government forces were able to detonate a mine network in the west of the al-Zaybah as a result of an artillery shell, and mines planted by militias in the vicinity of Zaybah in the east of the city, as well as the dismantling of bombs planted by the Houthis in two houses.

Maj. Gen. Samir al-Sabbri, commander of Taiz axis, confirmed in a statement published by the government news agency Saba that the military operation launched by the National Army forces on Friday continued until the liberation of the province from the Houthi militia.

According to the official Yemeni news agency Saba, the military operation comes as a response after al-Houthi militia attacks on national army positions, shelling of residential neighborhoods and the continuation of the siege of the province since  four years ago.

He said the national army is at high readiness and will carry out combat tasks and counter-attacks on the positions of the coup militia, and complete military operations to liberate the remainder of the province.

One killed and 6 wounded in attack on Tariq Saleh forces in al-Khokha

May 26, 2019, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٦ مايو ٢٠١٩

A soldier was killed and five other soldiers were wounded, as well as a civilian, in an attack carried out by gunmen on the forces of Tariq Saleh in Al-Khokha city, south of Hodeidah, west of Yemen.

Unidentified gunmen shot at a vehicle of the so-called Republican guards--formations led by Tariq Saleh--while it was passing near the Al-Khityar mosque north of al-Khokha city, local sources told Al-Masdar online.

The attack resulted in the death of the vehicle driver and five soldiers on board injured  with various injuries, and the owner of  a shop selling clothes was also injured.

The Directorate of Al-Khokha is under the administrative control of the legitimate government, military and security of the resistance forces under the supervision of the UAE forces supervising the military operations in the west coast of the country.

Three army personnel killed in clashes with Houthis in Taiz

May 25, 2019, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٥ مايو ٢٠١٩

Clashes erupted Saturday between government forces and Houthi gunmen on the outskirts of the city of Taiz (southwest of Yemen), using various types of weapons.

Field sources told Al-Masdar online that the direct confrontations took place in the front of "al-Juhaim" and the eastern part of Kelabah and lasted about three hours, while the two sides exchanged artillery shelling, but neither side of the fighting made any progress on the ground.

According to the sources, three members of the government forces were killed in the clashes and others were injured, and Colonel Abdu Hammoud, Al-Sagheer, was slightly injured in the clashes, after which he was rushed to the hospital.

Five civilians, including a child, were killed in a mine and sniper fire west of Taiz

May 25, 2019, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٥ مايو ٢٠١٩

Five civilians, including a child, were killed by a mine and the Houthi sniper fire on Friday in Taiz province, southwest of Yemen.

A local source told Al-Masdar online that four civilians were killed by the explosion of a mine planted by al-Houthi militias on a farm in Dar al-Shuja'a district of al-Mocha.

Al-Houthi militias planted mines in most of the northern and eastern areas of al-Mocha district before they were liberated, and engineering teams did not remove mines on some farms.

In a connected context, the child was killed Ahmed Mohammed Ali al-Ofiria, 14 years old, by a sniper of Houthi militias on Friday at their home in the A’redha Ofirah area of Maqbana district.

Coalition fighter raid kills 8 civilians in Mawiah, east of Taiz

May 25, 2019, ALMASDARONLINE ٢٤ مايو ٢٠١٩

At least eight civilians were killed and several others wounded in a raid by coalition fighters on Friday in the Mawiah district east of Taiz.

Local sources told Al-Masdar online that the raid by a coalition fighter on Friday afternoon targeted a gas station near the Houthi checkpoint in the "Habil Al-Tharriah area", east of Mawiah on the border with the Al-Hasha district of Al-Dale province.

While the sources said they did not know the number of casualties from the raid due to the scattering of body parts and the burning of corpses, medical sources in the Directorate confirmed the registration of eight dead, including children.

The sources indicated that the station is a small popular market where Qat sellers gather and the Houthi point is located near the station.

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

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May 25: The Daily Update Of Saudi American War Crimes Against Yemen

On May 27, 2019, YemenExtra, M.A.

The Saudi-led coalition, mainly backed by US/UK/UAE, and its mercenaries continued yesterday on May 25 in targeting Hodeidah, causing material damage to property and continuing to breach the cease-fire agreement of Hodeidah coastal province.

The mercenaries affiliated with UAE and Saudi Arabia targeted neighborhoods in the 7-Yolio and its surroundings by artillery and machine guns.

Additionally, the mercenaries carried out bombardment against Hodeidah International Airport and the village of Mughari in the Hays district with artillery and machine guns.

Child casualties in Yemen at 27 in just over 10 days: UNICEF

Last updated May 27, 2019, YemenExtra, SH.A.

“Friday attack in Taiz leaves 7 children dead, bringing to 27 the number of children killed and injured in a recent escalation of violence near Sanaa and in Taiz over the past 10 days,” UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore announced in an statement.

“Seven children between the ages of 4 and 14 were killed on Friday in an attack on the Mawiyah district, in the southern Yemeni city of Taiz,” the statement said.

“This attack brings to 27 the number of children killed and injured in a recent escalation of violence near Sanaa and in Taiz over the past 10 days. These are only the numbers that the United Nations has been able to confirm; actual numbers are likely to be even higher,” it added.

“Nowhere is safe for children in Yemen. The war on Yemen is haunting them in their homes, schools and playgrounds,” UNICEF official added.

“We, once again, urge those who have influence over this war to protect children at all times and keep them out of harm’s way. Attacks on civilian infrastructure must stop and calls for peace in Yemen must be heeded,” she said.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched the devastating campaign against Yemen on March 26, 2015, with the aim of bringing a former government to power and crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement. While Riyadh has failed to fulfill its objectives, the Saudi-led war has so far claimed the lives of around 56,000 Yemenis.

Yemeni drones strike Patriot System in Najran Airport

Last updated May 24, 2019, YemenExtra, Y.A

Air Force of the Yemeni  army forces ,Thursday, carried out a new attack by Qasef K2 combat drone on Najran Regional Airport for the third time in 72 hours.

A military source told YemenExtra that the operation has targeted the “Patriot system” at the airport, confirming that the operation hit its target accurately, after accurate intelligence monitoring.

On Wednesday morning, the Air force carried out an attack by Qasef K2 combat drone that targeting hangars housing the saudi’s warplanes.

A day earlier, the Air Force had launched a counterattack on an arms depot inside the same airport, using a Qasef K2 combat drone. The strike caused a fire at the airport.

Ansarullah warned on Sunday that those strikes were the start of operations against 300 vital targets in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as well as positions inside Yemen, where the foreign aggressors and their paid fighters hold bases.

In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition 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 and  prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.

Despite the coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

However, Saudi Arabia relies heavily on the US in its brutal war on Yemen. Washington has deployed a commando force on the Arab kingdom’s border with Yemen to help destroy arms belonging to Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement. Washington has also provided logistical support and aerial refueling.

Yemeni forces release footage denied by the coalition

On May 23, 2019, YemenExtra, Y.A

Yemen’s Joint Operations Command Center released footage verifying a retaliatory attack on the Abu Dhabi International Airport carried out in July, 2018, with a domestically-built long-endurance ,Sammad-3 (Invincible-3) ,unmanned aerial vehicle flying at low altitude before it fires a missile, setting two trucks parked at the airport ablaze, which had been denied by officials of the United Arab Emirates, main part of the Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US.

The spokesman for Yemeni air force and air defense said at the time that the drone attack on Abu Dhabi International Airport had halted flights to and from the airport, adding that Yemeni forces will continue to target the infrastructure of countries that have taken part in the coalition against Yemen in future attacks.

Emirati aviation authorities later denied the attack while UAE officials claimed that the development had not affected operations at Abu Dhabi International Airport, and flights continued to arrive and depart as scheduled.

In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition 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 and  prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.

Despite the coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

However, Saudi Arabia relies heavily on the US in its brutal war on Yemen. Washington has deployed a commando force on the Arab kingdom’s border with Yemen to help destroy arms belonging to Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement. Washington has also provided logistical support and aerial refueling.

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