Spokesman: Yemeni Army to Astound Aggressors in Coming Days
Local Editor
The spokesman for the Yemeni Army, Sharaf Luqman, warned the Saudi-led coalition on Wednesday that the forces of the Arabian Peninsula country will catch the aggressors unawares in the coming days.
"The Army and popular committees of Yemen have created the worst-case scenarios [for the aggressors] and as long as they want ground war, we are ready [to confront them]," Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman was quoted by Al Mayadeen TV network as saying on Wednesday.
He added: "We have many surprises [for them] which will be revealed in the coming days".
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.
