SANA’A (Dispatches) – People gathered in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, on Saturday to announce a general mobilization with the aim of countering the military aggression and economic siege led by Saudi Arabia against their country.
According to the al-Maalomah news agency, the residents of the Jahanah area in Sana’a province announced a general mobilization during a tribal gathering.
They also condemned the heinous crimes and the continued escalation by the countries involved in the Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen.
These crimes will not go unpunished, they vowed, saying that America is the first enemy of the Yemeni people.
In another development, the UAE-trained militants, the so-called Giants Brigades, have begun withdrawing from a key frontline of the war in Yemen’s southern province of Shabwah.
The pullout came after dozens of militants were killed when Yemeni forces and fighters from allied Popular Committees launched a counteroffensive against their position in Shabwah.
Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, stated that Yemeni missile defense units launched a ballistic missile at a gathering of the terrorists in the Usaylan district on Saturday morning.
He added that the missile hit the designated target with great precision, leaving dozens of UAE-paid militiamen and Daesh terrorists killed and many others injured.
A number of high-ranking commanders were among the slain militants. Several military vehicles belonging to the UAE mercenaries and the Daesh terrorists were destroyed in the Yemeni missile strike as well, Saree noted.
The Yemeni ambassador to Iran says the UAE cannot maintain a military campaign against his country, and resorts to deception instead to mislead the world public opinion.
“The Saudi-led coalition of coalition dreamed of scoring territorial gains. That is why the UAE dispatched its mercenaries from the western province of Hudaydah to Shabwah,” Ibrahim Mohammad al-Dulaimi told Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network.
Even though the recent Yemeni retaliatory missile and drone strikes caused massive destruction in the UAE, Abu Dhabi is seeking to conceal the extent of damage and employing the policy of decision for that purpose, Dulaimi highlighted.
“We are fully prepared to keep up with our retaliatory strikes against targets deep inside member states of the Saudi-led coalition, including the UAE. Neither real mediations nor fair initiatives have been presented so far. The UAE suffered painful humiliation in the wake of the Yemeni attacks,” he pointed out.
“Members of the Saudi-led coalition of aggression will continue to sustain stinging blows unless they withdraw their forces and allied militants from occupied territories, release all our prisoners, abolish the ongoing cruel siege and pay indemnities,” Dulaimi said.
On Friday, the Saudi-led coalition carried out a new wave of airstrikes on Yemen, targeting various areas across the country.
Yemeni media outlets reported that the air raids targeted several provinces more than 30 times, leaving several Yemenis killed and injured.
The Riyadh regime and its allies have stepped up their air raids on Yemen in recent weeks, taking scores of civilian lives.
That follows increased retaliatory attacks by the Yemeni army and allied fighter from the Popular Committees. They have hit targets on Saudi and the UAE soil, and tightened grip on their mercenaries fighting inside Yemen.
Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States and regional allies, 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 the popular Ansarullah resistance movement.