Yemeni Army Missiles Target Strategic Military Base in KSA’s Najran

Local Editor

The Yemeni army launched missiles on a strategic military base in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday in retaliation for Riyadh’s continued airstrikes on Yemen.

The Yemeni forces hit the al-Ayr military base in Najran in southern Saudi Arabia with several missiles.

In a statement, Yemeni Army Spokesman Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman said that the missiles hit and destroyed the target in a precision attack.

Earlier in the day, civilian targets were pummeled by Saudi air raids in the northwestern province of Sa’ada in Yemen in which large groups of people lost their lives.

More Saudi strikes hit various areas in the southwestern province of Aden on Monday and claimed the lives of scores of innocent people.

The response came after Saudi air raids left dozens of people dead in the Yemeni capital’s Sa’awan neighborhood early on Monday.

The UN announced on Thursday that a humanitarian ceasefire would come into force in Yemen to allow the delivery of urgently needed aid to civilians.

The ceasefire came into force on Friday and was due to run up to the end of the holy month of Ramadan on July 17, but Saudi Arabia has repeatedly violated the ceasefire.

 

Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen in the last 112 days to bring the fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, back to power. 

The Saudi attacks have killed more than 2,600 people and injured at least 11,000 since the military aggression began against Yemen on March 26, according to UN records.

 

 

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