Yemeni Army launches missile strikes at Saudi troops in Jizan

The Yemeni Army's missile units targeted a large number of Saudi-led troops along the al-Khazra corridor in the kingdom's Jizan Province with Zelzal-2 missiles.

According to al-Masireh news channel, the home-grown Zelzal-2 missiles hit the convoys of the Saudi vehicles and inflicted heavy damage and casualties on the kingdom's army and allied forces.

The reports said the Yemeni ground troops then pounded the passage with several rounds of Katyusha and artillery fire, inflicting heavy casualties on the Saudi-led troops.

A senior commander of Yemeni Army underlined earlier this week that his country will be among the region's most powerful states in manufacturing advanced missiles.

"Enjoying a wise leader and relying on its young people's scientific power, Yemen will turn into one of the superior missile powers in the region in 10 years," Abdolmalek Issa told FNA on Monday.

"Missile is the only deterrence power possessed by the Army and the Popular Committees at the strategic level which has inflicted the most severe blows to the aggressive enemy and its mercenaries," he added.

The Yemeni Defense Ministry last month unveiled a new missile named 'Asif 1' that it said would be used in the war against Saudi Arabia.

Al-Masirah news website reported that the missile was test-fired in action after it hit a military base in Saudi Arabia's Najran Province.

"The missile units of the army targeted Rajla military base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Najran with three Asif 1 missiles and the missiles precisely hit the target," a Yemeni military source said.

In relevant remarks in March, the official spokesman of the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Sharq Luqman, underlined that the country is in possession of advanced missiles which can hit the Saudi capital.

EA