Ansarullah Official Vows More Retaliatory Attacks against Aggressors
Local Editor
A senior member of the political bureau of the Houthi Ansarullah movement, Mohammad al-Bakhti, vowed on Monday that the Yemeni forces will continue massive retaliatory attacks against aggressors after Ansarullah recently fired a missile at a weapons cache in a camp used by Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen’s Marib and killed dozens of the coalition’s soldiers.
Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Monday, al-Bakhti said that the Toshka missile operation that killed 50 soldiers from the Saudi-led coalition showed that the Yemeni nation is capable of dealing "direct and painful blows" to aggressors.
"The strategy of Ansarullah is to respond to aggressors in accordance with the level and conditions of their aggressiveness", he said.
"Our responses will become more severe gradually [to a point where] we will do something that will change the balance of power in the region", he added.
Saudi Arabia and its allies, who have been pounding the people of Yemen for over five months, came under a retaliatory rocket operation by the Yemeni army and popular committees in Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib.
Yemeni military sources announced recently on Sunday that the death toll from the recent Toshka missile operation on the Saudi-led coalition military camp reached 300 soldiers and officers of Saudi, Emirati, Bahraini and other nationalities.
In the retaliatory operation on Friday, Yemen’s army and forces targeted a weapons cache by firing a Toshka rocket at the Saudi-led coalition military base.
The Yemeni army and Popular Committees forces said Friday’s missile operation was "revenge" for six months of deadly air raids, but the coalition vowed that there would be no let-up in its air aggression.
Since March 26, a Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].
The ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to at least 1,916, with another 4,186 civilians wounded since the escalation of the conflict in March, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [OHCHR] reported recently last month.
The US-led Saudi aggression began in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the country’s fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
