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[Airstrikes News Update] Saudi Airstrikes, Fighting in Yemeni City Kill 13 People
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Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeting the country's Shiite rebels as well as fighting on the ground between rebels and pro-government fighters in the southern province of Taiz have killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens, Yemen officials said Friday.
Three children died in the airstrikes in the provincial capital of Taiz, while ground fighting on the city's outskirts killed a total of 10 fighters from the two sides, said security and medical officials who remain neutral in the conflict that has splintered Yemen.
Yemen's fighting pits the rebels, known as Houthis, and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh against the Saudi-backed and internationally recognized government forces as well as southern separatists, local militias and Sunni extremists.
The pro-government forces got a boost earlier this week with the return of Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who came back to the country following nearly six months of exile in Saudi Arabia.
The Houthis, who control much of Taiz province, have over the past weeks laid siege in the to the city of Taiz, Yemen's third-largest, where pro-government troops have set up camp, independent security officials said. Friday's ground attack was an attempt to re-enter the city, the officials said.
The Houthis on Wednesday raided three international aid convoys traveling to war-torn Taiz with much-needed medicine and food from the Red Sea port of Hodeida, they said.
"It is almost impossible to send aid to Taiz," said Hassan Boucenine of the Geneva-based aid group Doctors Without Borders, also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF. "Until a couple of weeks ago, you could send some during the day, but not anymore," he added.
As a result, Taiz residents now have "no medicine or vegetables," said human rights activist Abdel-Baset al-Samei.
Ezz Eddin al-Asbahi, a minister for human rights in Hadi's Cabinet, denounced in Geneva on Friday "the crimes and violations by the Houthis and Saleh's forces ... taking place in Taiz."
The rebels fighting there "aim to sow hatred," the minister added. The Shiite rebels and pro-Saleh forces are "punishing the city for rebelling against them."
Taiz, where Saleh lived for a decade before he became president, is a predominantly Sunni city. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters. Houthi officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
The war in Yemen escalated in March when the Saudi-led coalition launched a campaign involving air strikes and ground troops against the Houthis and their allies. More than 2,100 civilians have been killed, according to U.N. estimates. The coalition recently has sought to retake the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, captured last September by the rebels.
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At least 20 killed in Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen
Witnesses say warplanes from a Saudi-led alliance bombed two houses in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday.
Hadi flew in late Tuesday aboard a Saudi military aircraft that landed at an airbase adjoining the civilian airport in Aden.
The president promised the Yemeni people that the Huthis, who hailed from the mountainous north, would be driven from the capital Sanaa. Hadi’s return came two days before Eidul Azha.
Not long after, however, the Houthis took Aden and Hadi fled the country outright to Saudi Arabia.
On Monday the rebels celebrated the first anniversary of their seizure of Sanaa, which they overran unopposed, aided by renegade troops loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
“Aden will be the key to Yemen’s salvation”, Hadi said in July during a televised address marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
A United Arab Emirates officer has succumbed to his injuries sustained in Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib, PressTV reported.
Hadi loyalists began an all-out offensive against the Houthis in Marib on September 13, aiming to retake the capital.
Pro-Hadi forces have also been locked in fierce fighting to retake Yemen’s third city Taez, which is seen as a crucial gateway to Sanaa.
Meanwhile, At least 32 people were killed in Saudi airstrikes on various residential locations, including a school, throughout the capital Sana’a.
The death toll was likely to rise because some people were missing, another medical source said, as rescuers combed the rubble.
Two missiles were reportedly fired from the Saudi-led fighter jets destroying four houses in southern Sanaa, killing 20 civilians, mostly women and children.
A security vacuum in Aden and much of Yemen’s south, which were won back from the Houthis in July, may yet delay the regrouping of the Yemeni state there as armed gangs and al Qaeda militants have stepped up their presence.
The strikes have continued alongside the Saudi-led campaign.
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Saudi-Led Strikes Kill 25 Civilians In Yemen
Saudi-led airstrikes have killed 25 civilians in a village in northwestern Yemen, according to residents and medics.
Most of the dead in Bani Zela were women and children, the Reuters news agency reports.
One resident, who called himself Khaled, said: "People were fleeing their homes as the helicopters pursued, they committed a massacre for no reason."
The incident in Bani Zela, in Yemen's Red Sea border area with Saudi Arabia, comes after the kingdom said that three of its officers, a general and two border officers, had been killed along the frontier.
An Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia has been carrying out strikes against the Iran-allied Houthi militia in Yemen for the last six months, trying to remove the group from the capital Sanaa and get President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi back in power.
This has resulted in several mass killings of civilians, including 36 people at a water bottling plant in August and 25 workers at a milk factory in April.
The attack in Bani Zela could signal an escalation in combat along the frontier.
The target of the airstrikes was not clear and a spokesman for the alliance could not immediately be reached for comment.
About 100 Saudi military personnel, including another general, have been killed along the border since the beginning of the Saudi-led campaign in March, according to a tally by Reuters.
The United Nations says more than 4,500 Yemenis have also died since then.
Mr Hadi arrived in the southern port city of Aden on Tuesday, a week after his government formally returned to Yemeni soil from Saudi Arabia.
He left the country again on Sunday, local officials said, on his way to the annual UN General Assembly meeting in New York.
It is not clear if he will go back to Yemen or return to Saudi Arabia.
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Helicopter attack kills 30 civilians in Yemen village: residents, medics
Residents and medics said air strikes by helicopters flying from Saudi Arabia killed 30 civilians in a Yemeni village on Sunday, but Saudi authorities dismissed the accounts as "totally false".
Apache helicopters fired rockets at the village of Bani Zela in Hajjah province, 10 km (6.5 miles) from the Saudi border, killing at least 25 civilians, including women and children, the residents and medics said.
The helicopters returned for a second strike as residents and medical teams were trying to evacuate casualties, killing three medics and two more civilians, they said.
"People were fleeing their homes as the helicopters pursued," a resident who identified himself as Khaled, told Reuters by telephone. "They committed a massacre for no reason."
Yemen's Saba news agency, run by the Houthi group now in control of much of the country and under attack by a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states, put the death toll at 28 and said 17 others were injured, some seriously.
"Rescue teams and medics are still working on transfering the casualties to safety," the agency said, quoting an official in the province.
A Saudi official said the coalition had played no role in any attack in the area.
"This is totally false news. We deny it," the official, who declined to be identified, told Reuters, adding that no coalition helicopters operated so far from the border.
The coalition has been pounding the Iran-allied Houthi group from the air for six months, trying to eject it from the capital Sanaa and restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power.
The campaign has resulted in several mass killings of civilians, including 36 people at a water bottling plant in
August and 25 workers at a milk factory in April.
The target of Sunday's strikes was unclear, but the border area has recently been the scene of clashes between Yemen's Houthis and Saudi forces. Last week, the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya channel reported that 40 Houthis were killed during an attack on al-Hathera village in Saudi Arabia's Jizan province.
BORDER DEATHS
Sunday's attack came less than a day after Saudi Arabia announced that a brigadier general died in hospital of wounds suffered in an incident on the border with Yemen.
Ibrahim Omar Ibrahim Hamzi, deputy commander of the 8th brigade in Saudi Arabia's southern Jizan province, was injured "defending the nation and its citizens," the statement said, without providing details.
His death follows the killing of two border officers along the frontier on Saturday.
About 100 Saudi military personnel, including another general, have been killed along the border with Yemen since the Saudi-led campaign began in March, according to a Reuters count.
More than 4,500 Yemenis have also died since March, according to U.N. figures.
In the latest fighting, coalition air strikes pounded suspected Houthi targets in the capital around 25 times, residents said, and hit several other central provinces.
Gulf troops and allied Yemeni tribesmen were fighting ground battles against militiamen and their allies in Yemen's army in the desert province of Marib 120 km (75 miles) east of Sanaa on Sunday.
The two sides exchanged artillery fire in a coalition push for the strategic foothills leading to Sanaa on Saturday, backed by Arab air strikes.
At least 20 bodies from both sides were seen on the battlefield, a local official told Reuters.
Hadi arrived in the southern port city of Aden on Tuesday, a week after his government's formal return to Yemen from Saudi Arabia after nearly six months in exile.
But he left the country again on Sunday, local officials said, en route to the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. It remains unclear whether he will return again to Yemen or go back to Saudi Arabia.
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