Saudi Arabia targets areas in Yemen with airstrikes, rockets

Saudi Arabia has conducted several airstrikes and rocket attacks against areas in Yemen, where the United Nations (UN) says the humanitarian situation is dire.

According to the latest media reports, Saudi warplanes bombarded the Yemeni military base of al-Anad in the southwestern province of Lahij five times on Tuesday.

The western Yemeni province of Hudaydah was also targeted at least 6 times on the same day.

Reports also said that the Saudi jets targeted a market in the district of Qa’atabah in the southwestern province of Dhale.

The Saudi army also fired a number of rockets on a number of areas in the northern Yemeni province of Sa’ada. A road connecting the districts of al-Dhaher and Sha’adah in the province was also targeted.

Saudi Arabia also targeted with rockets the district of Dar Sad in the southern Yemeni province of Aden over 50 times.

Riyadh also conducted 11 air raids on the district of Harad in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah, bombarding a hotel and customs office there.

Saudi jets targeted three times the Yemeni military bases of Kufal and Jabal al-haylan in the central Yemeni province of Ma’rib.

In retaliation for the Saudi airstrikes, the Yemeni army backed by popular committees bombarded a number of Saudi military bases in the southwestern Yemeni province of Jizan. According to reports, at least one person was killed and two others were injured in the attacks. A Saudi soldier was also injured in the Yemeni attacks on Jizan.

The Yemeni forces also targeted and destroyed a Saudi military vehicle in an area in the province.

In a separate development in the impoverished country, the Yemeni army clashed with al-Qaeda militants in Aden, killing 10 militants and injuring 40 others.

On Tuesday, Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesman for the World Health Organization, said that 1,859 civilians were among the total of 3,984 people killed in Yemen until July 19.

The humanitarian situation in Yemen has become critical, with many international aid organizations seeking a safe passage into the country to send much-needed medical and humanitarian supplies to the country.

More than four months of the Saudi airstrikes have caused severe shortages in basic necessities and nine million people remain in dire need of immediate assistance across Yemen.

On March 26, Saudi Arabia began its military aggression against Yemen – without a UN mandate – in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, an ally of Riyadh.

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