The Saudi military pushes ahead with its brutal military campaign against neighboring Yemen, with reports of casualties in the latest wave of Riyadh’s airstrikes on the Arab country.
Saudi warplanes launched air raids on Nahdein Mountain, located in the Hafa’a area of Yemen’s capital Sana’a on Wednesday.
Saudi military jets further struck Haddah residential neighborhood in Sana’a, where there were reports of casualties.
In a similar airstrike, the Faj Attan area in the Yemeni capital was pounded while Kitaf district of the northwestern province of Sa’ada was targeted with 40 rockets.
Elsewhere, the Saudi attacks on a hotel in the Abs district of the northwestern Hajjah province claimed the lives of four people, among them a Yemeni child, the Lebanese Arabic-language al-Mayadeen news network.
The Yemeni al-Masirah news channel also reported that a gas station and a security base came under attacks by Saudi fighter jets in the central al-Bayda province.
Al-Masirah further said that the Saudi jets conducted air raids in the Baqim and Ḥaydan districts in the Sa’ada province.
In response, the Yemeni armed forces fired rockets at an army training camp and a border guard base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Najran region.
Yemen’s army and allied popular committees also fired rockets at two Saudi military sites in the kingdom’s southwestern Jizan border region, destroying five armored vehicles.
Meanwhile, in another development on Wednesday, Egyptian security sources, whose names were not released in reports, said as many as 800 Egyptian troops were deployed to Yemen to join Saudi Arabia’s military campaign.
According to the sources, four Egyptian units, consisting of 150 to 200 troops each, along with transport vehicles and tanks arrived in Yemen late on Tuesday.
Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain have already dispatched army forces to Yemen in support of the Saudi military offensive against Yemen.
Yemeni officials say around 2,000 foreign troops are operating in Yemen, but Qatari-owned Al Jazeera TV puts the number at some 10,000.
On March 26, Saudi Arabia began its aggression against Yemen – without a UN mandate – in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the country's fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
The conflict has so far left about 4,500 people dead and thousands of others wounded, the UN says. Local Yemeni sources, however, say the fatality figure is much higher.
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