The aircraft pounded al-Nahdain Mountain in the south of the city five times
early Monday, Yemen’s official Saba’ Net news agency reported. The strikes
destroyed several residential buildings and inflicted other material damage, but
there was no immediate word on possible casualties.
Also on Monday, Yemen’s al-Masirah television network released footage of the
damage caused a day earlier by Saudi airstrikes on a health center in the
northwestern province of Sa’ada, used to treat cholera patients.
The attack took place as the outbreak continues to spread across the country,
having already claimed more than 600 lives.
Separately, the Yemen al-Yawm television channel conducted an interview with
former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who rejected claims that his allied
Army and popular forces had received even a "single bullet from Iran.”
Saudi Arabia has been carrying out the bombing campaign since March 2015 to
restore Saleh’s pro-Riyadh successor, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. Hadi had resigned
earlier that year and refused to negotiate power with Yemen’s popular Houthi
Ansarullah movement, which ally Saleh.
Riyadh accuses Tehran of arming the forces towards preventing Hadi’s
reinstatement. The Islamic Republic rejects the claim.
Saleh said the ballistic missiles, which the Army has been firing onto the Saudi
soil in retaliation for the invasion are part of the strategic stockpile, which
he had procured during his tenure.
The missiles, he said, have actually been bought by the very $60 billion, which
he is being accused of misappropriating.
SOURCE: Alalam