RIYADH (Dispatches) – Saudi jets conducted several air attacks against al-Masajid area in the Bani Matar district of Sana’a early on Friday, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.
At least one civilian was killed in the latest attack. It followed another strike that hit Hajjah province.
The Yemeni media outlets also reported that the Saudi military aircraft launched at least seven raids on Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib.
Saudi jets also bombed the Harad district in Yemen’s northern province of Hajjah on three occasions. There have been no reports of casualties as of yet.
Al-Tinah area in the Midi district of Hajjah province was also targeted by the warplanes.
Saudi Arabia has intensified its air raids against residential areas in the Yemeni capital Sana’a and elsewhere in the war-wracked country, after the head of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council announced the launch of a general mobilization campaign against the Saudi war and all-out blockade.
Mahdi al-Mashat, who heads the council, has stressed the importance of “popular steadfastness” in the face of the aggressors as he announced the start of the “Yemen Hurricane” campaign.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies, backed by the United States and European powers, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power and crushing Ansarullah resistance movement.
The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.
Meanwhile, the leader of Yemen’s popular Ansarullah resistance movement said enemies are using sanctions and an economic pressure campaign in order to create divisions among different walks of life in Yemen, and pit people against each other.
“The ongoing onslaught in Yemen is an all-out campaign. Enemies are employing a wide array of measures, including sanctions and embargoes, divisive policies as well as tension-making practices to achieve their objectives,” Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said at a ceremony in the capital Sana’a on Thursday evening as he received a group of tribal leaders from the Harib district of the central Yemeni province of Ma’rib.
He praised the steadfastness ad bravery of Yemeni tribal fighters in battles against Saudi-sponsored militants.
Earlier this week, the Ansarullah chief warned against the establishment of alliances with the United States and the Zionist regime, stating that such moves constitute the most significant threat to the Muslim world.