Captive Saudi Soldier Hails Treatment He Received from Yemeni Forces
Local Editor
Yemeni media have released footage of a Saudi soldier, Sergeant Faez Mufarrah Abdullah al-Asmari, taken captive in the al-Hathireh military base of Saudi Arabia’s Jizan recently this month on October 1.
Yemen’s al-Masirah news agency released footage of the Saudi soldier being treated and interviewed on Saturday.
In his remarks, Asmari reassured his family about his health and well-being, saying that the Yemenis have met all his needs.
The Saudi sergeant said that he was injured in the head during his capture, but that the Yemenis have fully tended to him and helped in his recovery, adding that he is now in good condition.
Asmari meanwhile called on the Saudi forces to renounce war and aggression as Yemen and Saudi Arabia are neighbors and have religious affinities.
Last month in September, Yemeni media broadcast similar video footage of some Saudi soldiers whom the Yemeni army, with the support of the popular committees, had taken captive during clashes on the border with Saudi Arabia.
The news came as a Saudi-led coalition continues its military aggression against the impoverished nation of Yemen.
In the latest round of the airstrikes, Saudi-led warplanes pounded an area in the southern province of Ta’izz in Yemen on Saturday. A family of ten was killed in the airstrike.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country since March 26.
The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].
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.
As a result, the Yemeni army backed by popular committees and tribal fighters has been responding to the aggression by targeting several Saudi border military posts and cleansing several areas across the country from Hadi and al-Qaeda-linked militias.
