Saudi-Led Coalition Harms Southern Yemen

The Saudi-led coalition forces and its paid fighters on Sunday continued to targets Yemeni civilians and their properties in Dhalea province, southern Yemen, a security official told YemenExtra.

According to the official, the coalition -hired paid fighters targeted a Gas Station belonging to a citizen in Qatabah district, led to its destruction.

On Saturday, the coalition warplanes launched air strikes on civilians’ homes in the same district, killing and injuring over 24 civilians, mostly children and women.

Earlier ,the Media Center of Yemeni army published on Wednesday photos showing the house of a civilian’s home after the coalition’s warplanes targeted it with several random raids in Dhalea province.

Last month,the coalition paid fighters on Saturday shot dead four women in several villages of the province.

Eyewitnesses said that paid fighters of the coalition forces raided homes of unarmed citizens in Wadi al-Khabat in Bait al-Sarji under the pretext of looking for wanted men but found only women in those houses, and when some women tried to raise their cries for help from the residents, the paid fighters fired at all who raised their voices, which resulted in the killing of four women.

In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and  prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.

Despite the coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

However, Saudi Arabia relies heavily on the US in its brutal war on Yemen. Washington has deployed a commando force on the Arab kingdom’s border with Yemen to help destroy arms belonging to Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement. Washington has also provided logistical support and aerial refueling.