Local Editor

In retaliation for the US-led Saudi aggression, Yemeni armed forces backed by members of Popular Committees launched an attack against a Saudi military convoy in the kingdom’s southwestern province of Jizan.

According to reports on Sunday, the Yemeni forces targeted the Saudi soldiers who had been deployed in the region to recapture the military bases already seized by the Yemeni army.

Scores of vehicles belonging to the Saudi military were destroyed in the attack, the reports said.

The Yemeni army earlier in the day detected and targeted a Saudi convoy of arms and ammunition in al-Khobe region of Jizan, inflicting heavy losses on the Saudi military. A Saudi ammunition dump was also destroyed in the province, according to reports.

Additionally, Yemeni forces launched retaliatory missile and rocket attacks against several Saudi military bases near the Yemeni border. Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry announced that a Saudi soldier was killed in an overnight attack near the country’s border with Yemen.

Meanwhile, the Saudi military pounded Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada with over 50 airstrikes earlier the same day. There is still no word on the possible casualties of the attacks.

Also on Saturday, the Yemeni forces managed to shoot down an Apache military helicopter belonging to the United Arab Emirates [UAE] in Lawdar district between the Yemeni provinces of Bayda and Abyan.

This was the second Apache chopper to be downed by the Yemeni forces over the past two days. On Friday, the Yemenis targeted a Saudi helicopter with a surface-to-air missile in al-Khobah district of Jizan.

Heavy clashes between the Yemeni forces and al-Qaeda extremists were also reported elsewhere on the battlefield in the southern province of Aden. 

Furthermore, Saudi fighter jets also struck a hospital in the southwestern province of Ta’izz in Yemen, setting the surgical ward on fire.

In the meantime, reports said that the death toll from Saudi Arabia’s airborne assaults on Ta’izz on Friday has increased to 63.