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Yemen forces target southern Saudi bases with rockets

Yemenis stand amid the ruins of buildings destroyed in an airstrike by Saudi Arabia on the capital Sana’a on July 13, 2015. (AFP photo)

The Yemeni army and popular committee forces have launched several rockets towards Saudi military bases in the southwestern parts of Saudi Arabia along the border with Yemen.

The Yemeni forces pounded the military site of Malhamah in the southwestern province of Jizan with five Grad rockets early on Thursday morning.

The joint forces also targeted a police center in the southwestern border city of Najran with several rockets.

They also fired rockets at a communications center in the southwestern Saudi province of Dhahran al-Janub in the region of Asir.

There has been no report on the possible casualties or damages due to the attacks.

The Yemeni attacks were carried out in retaliation for the incessant Saudi bombing of areas across the impoverished Arab country.

The attacks on Yemen continued on Wednesday without respite with the Saudi jets pounding several areas in the country, including the Aden International Airport and the districts of Attawahi and Mualla in the southwestern province of Aden.

Riyadh launched its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 – without a UN mandate – in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia.

More than 3,000 people, including 1,500 civilians, have been killed over the past three months in Yemen, according to the United Nations. Some local sources put the number of the dead at 4,500.


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