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Yemen army targets Saudi base with rockets

Fighters of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement sit in a pick-up truck mounted with a machine-gun in the capital Sana’a on April 21, 2015. © AFP

The Yemeni army has fired as many as 12 rockets at a Saudi military base in the southwestern Saudi province of Jizan.

Yemeni army forces, backed by popular committees, targeted the Saudi military base of al-Doud and the area surrounding it in Jizan late on Wednesday.

There has been no immediate report on the casualties or material damage caused by the rocket attacks.

The rocket attacks by the Yemeni army were in response to Saudi aggression against several areas across the impoverished Arab country. Saudi Arabia has been carrying out airstrikes against Yemen since March 26 without the authorization of the United Nations. 

The Saudi fighter jets targeted the premises of Yemen’s customs in the city of Hard in the northwestern province of Hajjah, and a governmental complex in the northern province of al-Jawf.

Saudi warplanes also pounded several areas in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada. In one of the attacks on Wednesday morning, Saudi fighter jets struck a residential building in the Saqin district, razing it to the ground, the Arabic-language al-Masirah satellite television network reported.

A Shia Muslim cleric, identified as Allameh Homaizah, and five members of his family, including two children and a woman, were killed in the aerial attack.

Time running out for ceasefire as famine looms

Meanwhile, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN envoy for Yemen, called for an immediate ceasefire in Yemen, saying that some 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and one million people have been displaced in the fighting in the country.

"It is imperative for all the parties -- and for me everybody is responsible -- to find a truce," the envoy told reporters.

He further called for the ceasefire to take hold before the end of Ramadan on July 17, adding that the Arab country is on the brink of famine.

“We are one step away from famine," the UN envoy said, adding, “We want to really find a way to lessen the suffering of the population.”

According to the United Nations, at least 2,600 people have been killed and 11,000 others have sustained injuries due to the conflict in Yemen since March 19.

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