Yemeni forces carry out retaliatory attacks inside Saudi Arabia, killing at least two Saudi soldiers and destroying several vehicles.
In one attack on Monday, Saudi media announced that one National Guard and one border guard were killed in a mortar attack by Yemeni forces in the Asir border region.
In another attack, the Yemeni army and popular committees targeted Saudi military bases near Jizan port city with “piercing star” missiles. Four Saudi military vehicles were destroyed and two others damaged in the attack.
Yemeni army forces backed by popular committees and Ansarullah Houthi fighters have been continuously carrying out cross-border mortar and missile attacks as well as direct land attacks inside Saudi Arabia.
Two Saudi Arabian border guards died and five others were wounded in a retaliatory missile strike in Asir area in late May. Days earlier, a retaliatory rocket attack by Yemeni Ansarullah fighters killed a Saudi soldier in the border city of Najran.
In another attack by the Yemeni army backed by Houthis in the same month, the Yemenis managed to destroy four tanks after storming a base in the Saudi city of Jizan.
Reports say Monday’s attack raises the death toll of Saudis to 37 since Riyadh’s aggression against Yemen commenced on March 26, 2015.
Since then, Riyadh has been carrying out numerous deadly cross-border airstrikes in Yemen, destroying the poverty-stricken country's infrastructure. The aim of the Saudi military aggression is to weaken the Ansarullah Houthi movement, which currently controls the Yemeni capital and a number of other provinces, and reinstall the fugitive former President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia.
The United Nations says about 2,000 people have been killed and 7,300 others injured in the conflict while Yemeni sources on the ground reckon the death toll to be much higher
source : abna
