| Online: | |
| Visits: | |
| Stories: |
Yemen update 8\18\2015..Saudi-led warplanes batter Yemeni port, aid group sounds alarm
Anti-Houthi Fighters Seize Key Yemen City
Saudi led coalition air attack to Yemen
Saudi jets hit Yemeni aid port
Saudi-led warplanes batter Yemeni port, aid group sounds alarm
Saudi Bombing of Al Hudaydah is Condemned
1 killed, several injured in latest Saudi raids on Yemen
Yemen holds forum to promote Ansarullah’s slogans
Yemen – Saudi Army and Hutíes ambush tanks and destroy crew – August 16, 2015
Red Cross concerned about abandoned bodies in Yemen
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has expressed deep concern over the growing number of unattended dead bodies in Yemen, amid ongoing Saudi airstrikes on the impoverished Arab country.
The Swiss-based organization said “international humanitarian law” requires the dead bodies that are being abandoned in the war zones be “treated properly and with respect.”
“With the escalation of the fighting, more casualties are being left behind owing to the increased danger associated with retrieving the wounded and the dead,” said Nourane Houas, head of the ICRC Protection Department in Yemen on Tuesday.
Houas urged all sides in the conflict “to respect the dignity of the dead” and “allow their proper identification and their handover to the families.”
“Failure to identify the dead puts them in the ranks of the missing, and prevents the families from mourning,” Houas said.
The ICRC said it has helped retrieve more than 400 dead bodies since March. The World Health Organization, however, says the death toll from the conflict from March to August 5 stands at a figure of over is 4,340 people.
Local sources say the the fatality figure from the Saudi airstrikes is much higher.
According to the United Nations figures, half of those killed are civilians.
Tens of UAE Troops Killed in Clashes with Yemeni Forces
Ekram Riyaz, a senior Ansarullah commander, announced that a large number of UAE troops deployed at Abyan province in Southern Yemen, have been killed in fierce clashes with the Yemeni forces.
“The Ansarullah fighters targeted a convoy of UAE troops’ Humvee military vehicles in an area located between Al-Bayda and Abyan provinces,” Riyaz told FNA on Tuesday.
The Yemeni forces destroyed several Humvee vehicles and confiscated five other as well as a missile launch-pad.
In a similar development on Sunday, the Yemeni forces killed tens of Bahraini and Saudi troops in the Southern parts of Saudi Arabia.
“Over 20 Bahraini troops were killed in clashes between the Yemeni and Saudi forces in Jizan province,” Abu Maryam, a senior Ansarullah commander said.
He noted that the Yemeni troops also launched military operations in al-Khoba region of Jizan province and Saudi Arabia’s al-Hasira military base, and said that tens of Saudi troops were killed in one-on-one clashes.
The clashes between the Ansarullah fighters and the Saudi-backed al-Qaeda terrorists as well as the pro-Hadi militias continue in the Southern parts of the country as Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for 146 days now to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 5,419 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.
Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by Ansarullah revolutionaries of the Houthi movement.
Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi warplanes are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
Ansarullah Foils Saudi Plot to Capture Sana’a
Zeifollah al-Shami, a senior Ansarullah leader, disclosed that the Yemeni revolutionary forces have defused Saudi Arabia’s plan for capturing Sana’a.
“The Riyadh government had plotted for the fall of Sana’a, but Ansarullah movement with maximum vigilance foiled it,” the Arabic-language Beirut-based Al-Akhbar newspaper quoted Shami as saying on Tuesday.
He underlined that the plot to capture the Yemeni capital has failed and what the pro-Saudi media are propagating now is just psychological war.
In similar development, Ali Rasheed al-Zaidi, another senior Ansarullah leader, said last month that the Saudi had planned to kill a number of Yemeni army commanders to destabilize the country and push it into chaos in a bid to pave the way for the takeover of Sana’a and a subsequent military coup by the pro-Hadi militias.
The clashes between the Ansarullah fighters and the Saudi-backed al-Qaeda terrorists as well as the pro-Hadi militias continue in the Southern parts of the country as Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for 146 days now to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Yemeni Army, Popular Troops Destroy UAE Military Vehicles in Mukeiras
Yemen: Popular Forces Start New Operation to Win Back Taiz
A senior Ansarullah commander announced that the revolutionary forces have launched fresh military operation to take back full control of the strategic province of Taiz in Southern Yemen.
“The Ansarullah fighters backed by the tribal forces have started a new round of operations to take back Taiz,” the commander, speaking on the conditions of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, told FNA on Tuesday.
He noted that the popular forces have already taken control of al-Jamhalieh region and the Taiz governorate’s building
Earlier today, Ekram Riyaz, another senior Ansarullah commander, announced that a large number of UAE troops deployed at Abyan province in Southern Yemen, have been killed in fierce clashes with the Yemeni forces.
“The Ansarullah fighters targeted a convoy of UAE troops’ Humvee military vehicles in an area located between Al-Bayda and Abyan provinces,” Riyaz told FNA.
The Yemeni forces destroyed several Humvee vehicles and confiscated five other as well as a missile launch-pad.
In a similar development on Sunday, the Yemeni forces killed tens of Bahraini and Saudi troops in the Southern parts of Saudi Arabia.
“Over 20 Bahraini troops were killed in clashes between the Yemeni and Saudi forces in Jizan province,” Abu Maryam, a senior Ansarullah commander said.
He noted that the Yemeni troops also launched military operations in al-Khoba region of Jizan province and Saudi Arabia’s al-Hasira military base, and said that tens of Saudi troops were killed in one-on-one clashes.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/08/yemen-update-8182015saudi-led-warplanes.html
