Saudi Arabia's Western Coast within Yemen's Fire Range

Rasa - Saudi Arabia's Western coasts are now within the fire range of the Yemeni army and popular forces after the latter captured Jabal Dakhan and al-Ramih military bases as well as the heights overlooking them in Jizan province.

News ID: 423614

Date: 17 September 2016 - 16:49

RNA - Tens of Saudi forces, including senior officers, were killed in the Yemeni army's offensives while others fled the battlefield after leaving behind a considerable amount of military hardware and equipment.

The city of Jizan is now within the fire-range of the Yemeni forces, specially because the distance between Jizan city and the two military bases is less than 70 kilometers.

The Yemeni army can now pound the towns and villages in the countryside of Jizan, including the villages of al-Khobeh, al-Qaviyeh, al-Masfouqeh, al-Shaneq, al-Marouseh, al-Sabakhieh, Jalah, al-Raheh and al-Mozbarat.

Saudi Arabia confirmed that five Saudi army soldiers have been killed in separate clashes with fighters of the Yemeni popular forces in its Southern border regions of Dhahran Janoub, Jizan and Asir.

Major General Mahya al-Otaibi, Jizan Border Guard chief, said that conscript Musa bin Mohammed Daeli was killed in Dhahran al-Janoub region near the border with Yemen’s mountainous Northwestern province of Sa’ada.

Major General Nasser bin Saleh Aldojse, Jizan police chief, added that officer Hamoud Mohammed Awaji was killed in clashes in the Southern flank of Saudi Arabia.

Additionally, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of the National Guard Mutaib bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud said a soldiers was critically wounded during a heavy exchange of gunfire in the al-Rabu’ah town of the southwestern Asir region.

The three senior Saudi officials, however, did not provide any information about the time when the three soldiers were killed and the circumstances surrounding their deaths.

Arabic-language Saudi Arabian daily newspaper Okaz also reported that officer Ahmed bin Hassan Atif was killed in the southern part of the kingdom.

Moreover, Akhbar 24 online newspaper reported that a soldier, identified as Ahmed Tohara, died during clashes on the southern border of Saudi Arabia with Yemen.

The developments came as three Qatari soldiers of the Saudi-led military coalition against Yemen were killed during operations in the conflict-ridden country on Monday.

Qatar’s state-run QNA news agency did not give any information on how or where they lost their lives.

Over the past few weeks, there have been multiple losses of life within the ranks of Saudi army soldiers and border guards during encounters with Yemeni soldiers and allied Ansarullah fighters.

Saudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015, with the UN putting the death toll from the military aggression at about 10,000. The offensive was launched to reinstate Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a Saudi ally who has resigned as Yemen’s president.

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