Saudi-led coalition hits Yemeni rebel camp Sana | Houthis News in the Capital

The coalition says the attack was a response to the Yemeni rebel group’s “attempted transfer of weapons”.

A Saudi-led coalition in the fight in Yemen says it hit a Houthi rebel camp in the capital, Sanaa, as it intensified its airstrike campaign against Iran-backed fighters.

A coalition backing the Yemeni government, which is supported by the Houthis during the civil war, said it had destroyed weapons depots in the rebel-held capital, according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

“The Sanaa operation was an immediate response to the attempt to transfer weapons from the Al-Tashrifat camp in Sanaa,” it said in a statement on Sunday.

It has been Yemen ruined by the civil war Since 2014 the government has been pushing against the Houthis who control much of the north.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the war, leaving the country in what the United Nations has described as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

Saudi Arabia has long accused Iran of supplying sophisticated weapons to the Houthis and Hezbollah’s rebel training representative, Tehran denies the allegations.

On Saturday, the coalition launched a “large-scale” military operation against the Houthis, following missiles fired by the rebels. he killed two people in the kingdom, the first such deaths in three years.

The airstrikes on Saturday killed three civilians, including a child and a woman, Yemeni doctors told AFP.

Missiles fired by drones in Saudi Arabia

The Coalition has stepped up airstrikes in Sanaa, which is targeted at the airport earlier this week, and its operations have been disrupted largely due to the Saudi-led blockade since August 2016, with exceptions for aid flights.

Armed groups often fire missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia, targeting its airports and oil infrastructure.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Sunday that the Houthi group had fired 430 ballistic missiles and 851 armed drones into Saudi Arabia since the war began in 2015, killing 59 Saudi civilians.

A spokesman for the Saudi alliance, General Turki al-Malki, said the move was being used as a base for Sanaa airport to carry out attacks against the kingdom.

Malki shared videos with reporters and said he was showing military advisers to the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hezbollah and the Houthis deny that the Lebanese group has played a role in the war.

In response to the spokesman’s allegations, Hussain al-Bukhaiti, a journalist and political commentator, told Sanaa al-Jazeera that it would be “stupid” for Houthis to leave all areas of Yemen to use Sanaa airport, “because Saudi is monitoring for less than 24 hours.” protected forces ”.

“It was foolish to see al-Malki talking about what he called ‘external intervention’ by parties outside Yemen,” Hezbollah and Iran said, “but we see it in the background. [at the press conference] the flags of the 12 countries involved in the war, ”al-Bukhaiti said.

“In fact, what is affecting Yemen is Saudi Arabia’s intervention within Yemen.”

Saudi Arabia has come under pressure from Western allies to lift the blockade of Yemeni ports and Sanaa airport, which has largely helped create what the UN calls. the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

The removal of the blockade has also been a condition for the Huthi to enter into ceasefire talks.

Malki has denied that there is a blockade in Yemen, and that Sanaa Airport remains open for UN and humanitarian flights.

According to UN estimates, the war in Yemen has killed 377,000 people by the end of the year, both directly and indirectly.

The UN World Food Program says it has been “forced” to cut aid to Yemen due to lack of funds, and warns that hunger in the country has risen.

More than 80% of Yemen’s estimated 30 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.