Yemen's Houthis Fire Missile at Saudi Arabia's Jizan
DUBAI (Dispatches) – Yemen’s Houthi fighters fired a Zelzal-1 missile in the direction of Saudi Arabia’s province of Jizan, the Houthis’ Masirah TV said in a tweet on Sunday.
The missile targeted "gatherings of Saudi soldiers”, it said.
The retaliatory attack came a day after Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, launched two ballistic missiles, designed and manufactured domestically, at military bases in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Jizan in relation for the Riyadh regime’s devastating military aggression against their country.
A Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told al-Masirah that the short-range Zelzal-2 (Earthquake-2) missiles hit Mashal and Malhamah bases with great precision on Saturday.
There were no immediate reports about possible casualties or the extent of damage caused.
In another development on Sunday, Yemeni army soldiers reportedly launched an airstrike against a position of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the country’s central province of al-Bayda as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its devastating military aggression against its impoverished southern neighbor.
A Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Yemeni soldiers and their allies attacked Saudi mercenaries in the al-Jaribat area of the al-Bayda district after they had carried out aerial reconnaissance by an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Separately, Saudi fighter jets carried out three airstrikes against an area in the Harf Sufyan district of the northwestern Yemeni province of ‘Amran. No reports of casualties were quickly available though.
A civilian also sustained critical gunshot wounds when Saudi border guards fired shots at al-Raqou area in the Monabbih district of Yemen’s mountainous northwestern province of Sa’ada.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the aim of bringing the government of Hadi back to power and crushing the country’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement.
The aggression has killed some 15,000 people and injured thousands more.
More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world's worst humanitarian disaster.