US-Saudi-led coalition's losses at the hands of the Yemeni army on battlefronts
Yemenis military operations respond to the coalition
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On June 23 , the Yemeni army keep responding to the Saudi-led coalition’s war that has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement and reinstate former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime. The Arab kingdom has also imposed a blockade on its impoverished neighbor, causing a dire humanitarian situation.
Scores of Saudi soldiers and paid fighters were killed and injured , while weapons were seized in an offensive operation on one of the military posts ; a Saudi soldier was shot dead ; paid fighters’ gatherings were targeted ; numbers of paid fighters were killed in two separated offensive operations ; and numbers of paid fighters were killed by bombs explosions and a military truck loaded with paid fighters was destroyed in # Najran, according to a military official.
Artillery shelling targeted Saudi soldiers gatherings , killing and wounding numbers of them; rocketry shelling targeted arms store,as a result firing took place the ; an advance was foiled ; ballistic missile Zilzal 1 and numbers of artillery shelling killed and wounding numbers of them in # Jizan, it added.
An advance was foiled , leaving dead and wounded ; two military machineries were destroyed ,killing those on boared in # Taiz, it confirmed.
A number of the paid fighters were killed by an explosion in # AL-Jawf, read it.
Notably, the artillery and missile Force of the Yemeni army demolished paid fighters’ gatherings in different areas in # the West Coast ; four paid fighters were shot dead in Al-Jabaleah area; paid fighters machinery was destroyed by a bomb killing those on board ; a tanker loaded with weapons for the paid fighters was destroyed ,causing large explosions and burning numbers of machineries northern Al-Duraihimi ; and a military machinery carrying a caliber-23 for the paid fighters was also destroyed northern Al-Duraihimi.
To conclude it with # Asir , four advances were foiled , leaving dead and wounded .
In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of its regional allies — mainly the united Arab Emirates and Jordan — started a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people later, the war has yielded little to that effect.
As if it weren’t bad enough that Hodeidah and its environs are among the most severely harmed by the blockade and the threat of famine, the civilians living there are also at risk of being bombed for no reason. There is no excuse for bombing this house and killing these civilians. This attack is a gross violation of international law and a war crime, and the governments responsible for it should be held accountable. This is what the coalition does with the refueling and weapons that the U.S. provides them. Refueling coalition planes just makes it easier for them to carry out more outrageous attacks like this one. Secretary Mattis tried arguing the other day that refueling gives coalition pilots more time to make better decisions about where to drop their bombs, but that ignores the reality that coalition governments have routinely shown blatant disregard for civilian life throughout the war. This latest attack is just the latest example out of the thousands and thousands of strikes on civilian targets that the coalition has carried out.
At the same time Mattis made his statement, a $1 billion weapons deal to Saudi Arabia was announced on the same day. Along with the $100 billion weapons deal signed between Washington and Riyadh last year, this will obviously further empower Saudi’s military campaign on Yemen, which Mattis supposedly wants to end.
