Saudi warplanes attack civilian target in Yemen, martyr five civilians

At least five civilians have been martyred when Saudi military aircraft carried out an airstrike against a residential area in Yemen's Western Province of Hudaydah as the Saudi regime presses ahead with an atrocious military campaign against its crisis-hit southern neighbor.

According to Press TV, local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said five people lost their lives and ten others sustained injuries on Monday evening, when Saudi fighter jets bombarded a residential building in the al-Tafsah area of al-Khawkhah district.

Saudi military aircraft also carried out two aerial attacks against civilian targets in the Mondabah area of Yemen’s Northwestern Province of Sa'ada.

Additionally, Saudi warplanes hit a vehicle in the Baqim district, and launched an airstrike in the al-Malahit area of al-Dhaher district.

There were, however, no immediate reports about the number of possible casualties and the extent of damage caused. 

Yemeni sharpshooters kill two Saudi troops in Jizan

Meanwhile, two Saudi soldiers were killed when Yemeni army soldiers and fighters from the allied Popular Committees launched two separate attacks against the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s campaign against the impoverished Arab country.

An unnamed military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that Yemeni snipers fatally shot a soldier in the al-Dokhan Military Base of the region, located 967 kilometers southwest of Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh, on Monday afternoon.

Yemeni sharpshooters killed another Saudi soldier in the al-Karas Military Base of the same Saudi region.

The artillery units of Yemeni forces also shelled the gatherings of Saudi forces in the Marwah district of Jizan, though no reports of casualties were immediately available.

Furthermore, Yemeni soldiers and Popular Committees fighters fired a medium-range Qaher M-2 ballistic missile at a position of Saudi-backed militiamen loyal to resigned Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in Yemen’s Northern Province of al-Jawf, leaving scores of them dead and injured.

Saudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Ansarullah movement and reinstate the former Yemeni President, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime.

More than 13,000 people have been martyred since the onset of the campaign more than two and a half years ago. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war.

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