Two senior Saudi and Emirati army commanders have been killed in fighting with the Houthi Ansarullah fighters in Yemen.
At least 150 Saudi-led troops and mercenaries were killed in a blastic missile attack on a Saudi military installation in the western countryside of Bab-el-Mandeb
Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah news website reported that the Yemeni army, backed by popular committees loyal to the Ansarullah movement, targeted a Saudi military headquarters in Ta’izz with a Tochka ballistic missile on Sunday night.
Among the 150 dead forces there were at least 42 mercenaries hired to work for the US security film, Blackwater that were killed in the attack.
United Arab Emirates’ state news agency also added that among the killed people there was Sultan Mohammed Ali al-Kitbi, who was killed in Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta’izz.
Saudi-owned al-Arabiya al-Hadath channel also showed photographs of Abdullah al-Sahian, the slain top Saudi officer.
The Houthi fighters also announced in their own media that the two had been killed in a rocket attack on the Red Sea coast.
In the latest Saudi attacks on Yemen, nearly 20 civilians were killed across the embattled country on Sunday.
The clashes come as a seven-day ceasefire is to start on Monday at midnight in Yemen, on the eve of UN-brokered peace talks in Switzerland between Ansarullah and representative of Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
Two previous ceasefires, in May and July, were followed by accusations of violations by both sides.
Yemen has been under Saudi military strikes on a daily basis since March 26. The military campaign is meant to undermine the Ansarullah movement and return Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, to power.
More than 7,500 people have been killed and over 14,000 others injured since the strikes began. The Saudi war has also taken a heavy toll on the impoverished country’s facilities and infrastructure.
Yemen is the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest nation and an estimated 80 percent of its population of 26 million need aid.
Written by Yoana for South Front
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