Yemeni forces kill over 80 Saudi-led troops in missile attack
Yemeni forces have managed to kill over 80 Saudi-led troops, including 42 Blackwater mercenaries, in a ballistic missile attack in the western Bab-el-Mandeb area.
The Yemeni army, backed by popular committees loyal to the Houthi Ansarullah movement, targeted a Saudi military headquarters in the Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta’izz with a Tochka ballistic missile on Sunday night, Yemen's Arabic-language al-Masirah news website reported.
Twenty-three Saudi, nine Emirati, and seven Moroccan forces, including a number of commanders, were also killed in the attack. Other reports said the attack left nearly 150 casualties among the Saudi-led forces.
The surface-to-surface missile also destroyed two Patriot missile systems, three Apache helicopters, more than 50 military vehicles, all belonging to the US Blackwater Worldwide security services company. The report added that two Saudi warships were damaged while fleeing the incoming Katyusha rockets that were fired spontaneously due to the missile impact.
Elsewhere, a Yemeni ballistic missile, named Qaher 1, hit a regional airport in the Saudi region of Jizan. There were no immediate reports of possible casualties and the extent of damage inflicted.
Meanwhile, a Yemeni army spokesman said the forces killed some 20 Sudanese mercenaries in an attack on Yemen’s southwestern province of Lahij.
Yemenis carry out these attacks in retaliation for Saudi strikes, launched with the aim of undermining Houthi Ansarullah movement and bringing back to power the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
More than 7,500 people have been killed and over 14,000 others injured since the strikes began. The Saudi war has also taken a heavy toll on the impoverished country’s facilities and infrastructure.
On Friday, Amnesty International slammed Saudi Arabia’s deliberate strikes on schools in Yemen as war crimes, calling for the prosecution of those involved in the attacks.
The International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen also warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in the country, documenting over 100 airborne attacks on hospitals since March. It warned that that hospitals and healthcare facilities are no longer safe places for people.
Silent occupation: Israeli settlers flocking to Cyprus as wars on Gaza, Lebanon rage
Putin: BRICS, not the West, will drive global economic prosperity
MSF in Jordan holds health conference on Gaza
Palestinian media rights group condemns killing of two journalists by Israel
VIDEO | A Tale of Bombs, Blame, and Bedtime Stories
Nov. 1: ‘Axis of Resistance’ operations against Israeli occupation
Brazilian journo fined, ordered to delete posts over criticizing Gaza onslaught
IRGC: Israeli regime incapable of calculating Iran’s decisive response
Russia rejects 'baseless' US claims of producing fake vote videos
Ambassador: Japan studying recognition of State of Palestine
VIDEO | Press TV's News Headlines
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
