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Yemen update 10/05/06\2015.. Saudi King Hospitalized
Footage shows hotel used by ousted Yemeni officials under rocket attack
Yemen rocket attack kills at least 20 Emirati troops
Saudi warplanes launch multiple airstrikes on Yemen’s Ta’izz, Sa’ada provinces
Sources revealed on Tuesday that Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz has been hospitalized in Riyadh and is now in critical health conditions.
Informed sources told Arabic-language al-Ahd news agency that King Salman is now in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) section of King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Saudi capital.
The sources also said that given the Saudi king’s unstable and aggravating health conditions, officials have ceased plans to transfer him to US hospitals.
King Salman, 80, is thought to have Alzheimer’s or dementia and the government is practically administered by his Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef.
According to witnesses, his exact state of dementia is a source of speculation but he is known to have held cogent conversations as recently as last October. He can also forget what he said minutes ago, or faces he has known all his life. This is typical of the disease.
Sources close to the Saudi monarchy revealed earlier this year that the number of hospital visits by King Salman in the last few months has increased and that he did not walk around, as he did before.
Four wide-scale attacks by the Saudi-led coalition troops and pro-Hadi militants on the positions of the Yemeni army and popular forces in Bab al-Mandab have been repelled on Monday, senior military sources said, adding that the region is under the full control of the Yemeni pro-revolution forces.
“The army and the popular committees repelled the Saudi mercenaries’ attempts to advance towards Bab al-Mandab four times today,” the source told FNA on Monday.
“The army forces and popular committees killed or injured tens of Saudi-led coalition forces and their mercenaries who sought to prevail over the Bab al-Mandab again,” the source added.
The source, who is an army officer, said that the Saudi forces also failed in their operations near Jabal al-Nasr and lost a number of forces.
Bab al-Mandab Strait and its coastal regions have been under massive ground and air assaults by the Saudi-led coalition troops and forces loyal to fugitive president Mansour Hadi since Thursday evening.
The Yemeni defense ministry first confirmed on Sunday that the Saudi-led coalition’s massive offensive to take control of the Bab al-Mandab strait in Western Yemen was repelled.
Speaking in an interview with al-Mayadeen news channel, an informed source dismissed occupation of Bab al-Mandab strait by the Saudi-led coalition and militants loyal to the fugitive president Mansour Hadi.
“Clashes still continue in Bab al-Mandab and the army and popular committees have forced Hadi-affiliated and coalition forces to withdraw,” he added.
The source said that the Yemeni forces have managed to repel the attacks launched by the Saudi-backed militia from Lahij Province’s al-Sabiha district against Bab al-Mandab, adding that tens of Saudi forces were killed during the counteroffensives.
The Saudi-led coalition forces sustained heavy casualties in fierce battle with the Yemeni army and Ansarullah forces in an area near Bab al-Mandab strait on Friday and retreated from the region.
The Saudi-led forces launched an offensive on Ansarullah positions near the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait first on Friday but were repelled after sustaining heavy casualties in the Yemeni forces’ counteroffensive.
The latest reports said the Saudi-led coalition forces had been pounding Ansarullah and Yemeni army positions in the region with massive missile and air strikes ever since the retreat.
The Yemeni and Ansarullah forces also shot down a Saudi helicopter and drone in the Western parts of the country.
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for 194 days now to restore power to Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 6,445 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.
18 UAE Guards Killed in Yemeni Troops Rocket Attack on Former PM’s Hotel
Yemen’s former Prime Minister Khaled Bahah escaped to Saudi Arabia once again after 18 of his UAE guards were killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attacks on his hotel in the port city of Aden.
Early reports said some 20 military troops lost their lives in the attacks mostly soldiers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) guarding Qasr Hotel.
A number of officials from the former Yemeni regime, including Khaled Bahah, were reportedly staying at the hotel.
An unspecified number of individuals have also been wounded in the attacks.
It is not immediately clear if any of the former Yemeni officials said to be residing at the hotel are among the casualties.
However, other reports said Khaled Bahah escaped unharmed.
Sources also said Khaled Bahah and his cabinet members were evacuated by a UAE helicopter.
Military Sources Reveal Massive Withdrawal of Pro-Saudi Forces in Ma’rib
Military sources revealed on Monday heavy defeats and withdrawal of the pro-Hadi and Saudi forces in the province of Ma’rib.
“Saudi troops started their withdrawal from Ma’rib on Sunday morning after sustaining a heavy defeat,” popular forces commander Qeis al-Salami told FNA today.
He noted that the Saudi, Emirati and Bahraini troops withdrew from the oil-rich al-Safer region after they were badly defeated. “The Ansarullah fighter backed by the Yemeni army forced the pro-Saudi troops to withdraw by attacking them with different kinds of heavy and semi-heavy weapons,” he added.
Al-Salami also said that the Yemeni forces repelled an attack by pro-Hadi militias on al-Balaq region and killed tens of them in heavy clashes.
On Sunday, military sources announced that over 30 al-Qaeda terrorists and pro-Hadi militias were killed in fierce clashes with the Yemeni popular forces in the province of Ma’rib.
“The Yemeni popular forces killed at least 32 terrorists and militias loyal to Mansour Hadi in Ma’rib province,” a military source told FNA.
Meantime, the Yemeni army and popular committees foiled another attempt by the terrorists to penetrate into Ma’rib province.
“The Yemeni forces have vowed to kill terrorists or push them out of Ma’rib province,” the military source said.
On Friday, a military source said that at least 55 troops of the Saudi-led coalition were killed or wounded in the Yemeni army’s operation in Ma’rib.
The military source said that, in addition to the killing and wounding of nearly 55 soldiers of the Saudi army and it allies by the Yemeni army, over eight military and 5 armored vehicles of the Saudi-led coalition were destroyed in the vicinity Al-Balaq, Thaat Al-Ra’ and Marbat Al-Dam in Ma’rib during the past few hours.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/10/yemen-update-1005062015-saudi-king.html
