Yemenis Retaliate: Hit Military Bases, Destroy Tank inside KSA
Local Editor
As part of retaliatory attacks against Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military aggression against their country, Yemeni forces have fired rockets deep into the Saudi territory, destroying a tank in a military base in the southern Najran Province on Friday.
The Yemeni army, backed by Houthi Ansarullah fighters as well as the country’s popular committees, hit two military bases in Zahran Al Janoub and Najran provinces deep inside Saudi Arabia on Friday.
Footage released by Yemen’s al-Masirah television showed that a Yemeni anti-armored rocket destroyed a tank in al-Amoud military base in Najran Province.
The Yemenis also launched mortar shells at Alb border region in Zahran Al Janoub Province, inflicting damage on a military base and forcing Saudi forces to flee the base.
The development by the Yemeni forces comes in response to the Saudi aggression against their country and people. Yemenis have so far targeted several military bases in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has been carrying out deadly airstrikes in Yemen since March.
The Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States began its aggression on Yemen in March-without a UN mandate.
UN estimates say that over 2,600, mostly civilians, have been killed and another 9,755 wounded as a result of the ongoing attacks on Yemen.
The US-led military aggression on Yemen first began on March 26 -- without a UN mandate -- in an attempt to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansoaur Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
The Yemeni army, backed by popular committees and tribal fighters have been responding to the aggression.
