Yemen Saudi update 8/10 /2016..US approves $1.1Bn arms sale to Saudi Arabia”
Saudi airstrikes kill 4 in Yemen
Saudi Fighter Jets Pound Factory, Destroy Civilians’ Food Supplies in Sana’a
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The airstrikes on Sana’a resulted in the death of at least 20 people and injury of tens of others as well as destruction of a food factory in al-Aqel district of the capital city. Al-Aqel factory where a majority of its workers were women were hit several times by the Saudi warplanes. The airstrikes on Sana’a also led to the temporary closure of the Sana’a international airport.
Saleh al-Samad, Head of the Political Council of Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement, said the airstrikes are against the international law. “The aerial transfer of medical and food supplies to millions of people across Yemen has been halted as a result of the suspension of the flights from the airport in the capital,” he added..
In a relevant development on Tuesday, Saudi jets bombed a potato factory in the Nahda district of Sana’a. Over a dozen people were killed in the attack. More than half of the victims were believed to be women.
In a relevant development on Wednesday, battlefield sources disclosed on Wednesday that the Saudi-led forces failed to open their way into the Eastern part of Sana’a after sustaining heavy losses in clashes with the Yemeni army and popular forces.
The Yemeni forces confronted and blocked the Saudi troops attack to enter the Ninth region in Eastern Sana’a. The Saudi troops sustained heavy casualties and lost a large number of military vehicles and equipment in clashes with the Yemeni forces.
Meantime, Yemeni Army Commander Hesham al-Sadeq said that his forces backed by the popular forces seized back more lands in Ta’iz province on Wednesday.
Yemen Strikes Saudi Coalition with More Ballistic Missiles
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The Yemeni army and popular forces destroyed the Saudi military positions in the Southern part of the kingdom with a Qaher-I ballistic missile, killing tens of Saudi army men. The Qaher-I missile hit Saudi Arabia’s Khamis Mushait military base in the Southern province of Najran, destroying their military hardware and equipment. Early reports indicate large casualties on the Saudi forces in the missile attack. The Saudi army and its coalition members have lost, at least, over a hundred troops each time they have come under a ballistic missile attack by Yemen. The Saudi-led forces’ armored vehicles were destroyed during the Yemeni missile attack.
Penniless Yemeni Militants Desert Frontlines as Hadi Fails to Pay up
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Former militants and informed sources said militants supporting Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Hadi have left frontlines as Hadi fails to pay them any more. The sources said as money ran out the militants ditched the frontlines in groups for a very different kind of work and many of them are now selling propane cylinders, Middle East Eye reported. “When the war broke out in Taiz city, I lost my work in a clothes shop and took my five family members to my original village,” 36-year-old Zakarya al-Aswad, once fighting with pro-Hadi forces says. “I decided to join militant groups as I wanted to resume work and get money from the resistance to eke out an income for my family.” Aswad says he fought dutifully in many key battles as long as the resistance kept paying him YR2000 ($8) per day. The payments continued for nine months but then, like many other civilian fighters, they stopped earlier this year and prompted Aswad to lay down his arms. These days, he buys propane cylinders from a local market and sells them to residents in his village which earns him YR2500 ($10) a day, some 20 percent more than he earned risking his life on a daily basis.
“The pro-Hadi commanders stopped paying civilian fighters on several battle fronts, including the strategically key battleground in Haifan,” Aswad said. Haifan is a district in Taiz province that borders Ta’iz city to the South and stretches to the neighbouring province of Lahj, the latter is a key supply route to the Southern port city of Aden. According to Nael al-Adimi, a pro-Hadi commander in Taiz, some 5,000 of their fighters have left the battle in the last few months, largely due to funding shortages. He said there were about 10,000 armed men left but that he expected further desertions over the coming weeks. “We do not have enough money to pay all fighters,” Adimi said.
While civilian fighters were initially among militant groups’ ranks, the launch of an anti-Ansarullah bombing campaign by a Saudi-led coalition in March 2015, more than 500 days after the international battle for Yemen began, many of the country’s fighters say they have had enough.
US approves $1.1Bn arms sale to Saudi Arabia
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