Yemen’s Army Strike Kills Several Sudanese Mercenaries
DUBAI (Dispatches) – A strike by Yemen’s Army on a military camp in the country’s northwest killed at least nine Saudi-backed Sudanese mercenaries on Wednesday, Yemeni defense ministry sources said.
“Nine members of the Sudanese forces were killed and 30 others wounded this morning by a Yemen army missile,” one of the sources told AFP.
The attack targeted a camp in Midi, in Hajjah province near the border with Saudi Arabia, the source added, requesting anonymity.
Another defense ministry official and a local source confirmed the toll.
The attack came after Saudi-led coalition’s warplanes launched a new round of airstrikes on various regions across Yemen, as the Riyadh regime and its allies escalate their aggression against the war-torn country.
Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported more than a dozen air attacks on the country’s northern province of Hajjah, saying the Saudi jets bombarded the Harad district.
Fighter jets from the Saudi-led coalition had carried out 22 airstrikes on the same Yemeni district hours earlier. There were no immediate reports about possible casualties and the extent of damage caused.
Saudi-led fighter jets also launched three raids on the al-Jubah and Wadi al-Ubaidah districts of the central Yemeni province of Ma’rib, in addition to two raids on the al-Hazm district in the northern province of Jawf.
Saudi Arabia launched the devastating war against Yemen in March 2015 in collaboration with a number of its allies and with arms and logistics support from the U.S. and several Western states.
The objective was to return to power the former Riyadh-backed regime and crush the popular Ansarullah resistance movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of an effective government in Yemen.
The war has stopped well shy of all of its goals, despite killing tens of thousands of Yemenis and turning entire Yemen into the scene of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Protesters Urge U.S. to End Role
Meanwhile, dozens of Americans have held a demonstration in New York City to denounce the bloody Saudi-led war on Yemen, urging Congress to support a proposal that would end the “unconstitutional” U.S. involvement in the aggression.
The protest took place in front of the office of Congressman Gregory Meeks, chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Tuesday.
Carrying placards and chanting slogans, the participants called on Meeks to back a Yemen War Powers Resolution put forth by two Democrats, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Congressman Peter DeFazio.
Kawthar Abdullah, an organizer at the Yemeni Alliance Committee, said the aim of Tuesday’s demonstration, was to pressure Meeks to back the motion, which would force a vote on the Senate floor to end the “unconstitutional U.S. participation” in the military invasion of Yemen.
“We will not sit by as the Constitution is ignored and the Yemeni people suffer seven years into this unauthorized war,” the lawmakers, who proposed the resolution, said in a statement.