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Yemeni retaliatory attacks kill, injure 30 Saudi mercs near Jizan

Thursday, 05 September 2019 7:28 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 05 September 2019 8:09 AM ]

In this file photo, Yemeni forces launch a domestically-manufactured Zelzal-1 (Earthquake-1) ballistic missile at a military site in Saudi Arabia. (By the media bureau of Yemen’s Operations Command Center)

Yemeni armed force have conducted retaliatory missile and rocket attacks near Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan city, killing and injuring more than 30 Riyah-led mercenaries.

The al-Masirah TV channel reported on Wednesday that Yemeni army soldiers and allied fighters from Popular Committees had fired a Zelzal-1 (Earthquake-1) missile as well as Katyusha rockets at a gathering of mercenaries west of the Saudi town of Haradh.

A Yemeni military source said the operation had left over 30 mercenaries dead and wounded.

Yemeni forces also launched similar missile and rocket attacks at gatherings of Saudi-led mercenaries northeast of the al-Nar mountain, accurately hitting their targets.

Yemeni fighters regularly target positions inside Saudi Arabia in retaliation for a Saudi-led military aggression, which began in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall the country's Riyadh-allied former regime and crush the Houthi Ansarullah movement.

The Western-backed military aggression, coupled with a naval blockade, has killed tens of thousands of Yemenis, destroyed the country’s infrastructure and led to a massive humanitarian crisis.

The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 91,000 over the past four and a half years.

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