Yemen Targets 'Sensitive' Saudi Sites in Jizan with Advanced Ballistic Missiles
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Yemeni army said its forces have targeted 'sensitive' Saudi sites in Jizan province, warning the kingdom that Yemen will respond to aggression with strength after a large-scale assault on the impoverished nation by the Saudi-led coalition.
"We promise the Saudi regime painful operations as long as it continues its aggression and crimes," said armed forces spokesman Yahya Saree on Saturday.
He said the Yemeni army had struck important and sensitive sites in the Saudi port city of Jizan with modern precision-guided missiles in retaliation to Saudi attacks.
The retaliatory attack follows intensified Saudi airstrikes against Yemen in the past few days.
Yemeni officials condemned Saudi airstrikes on hospitals and medical centers in the capital Sana’a as “war crimes”, calling on international organizations to intervene and stop them.
Spokesman for the Supreme Council for the Administration and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Talat al-Sharjabi said that the Saudi aerial attacks, which deliberately target medical facilities, constitute war crimes and are meant to increase the suffering of the Yemeni nation.
“As the Saudi-led coalition intensifies its attacks on Sana’a, we have complained to international institutions about the decrease in delivery of humanitarian aid to poor people and Yemeni hospitals,” he said.
Director General of the Public Health and Population Office in Sana’a Dr. Mutahar al-Marwani said the Saudi airstrikes on hospitals are a deliberate attempt to put pressure on the Yemeni health sector, which is currently suffering from the devastating Saudi war and brutal siege.
He said all medical diagnostic imaging centers are closed down in Sana’a, and thousands of patients have been adversely affected as a result.
Early on Friday, Saudi warplanes targeted an area close to al-Alia Medical Center in the Yemeni capital, severely damaging nearby buildings.
A medical source, who preferred not to be named, told Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that the strikes had caused panic and fear among patients and medical staff.
The Saudi strikes, the source added, had put the medical center out of service.
On Saturday, Saudi warplanes carried out a fresh wave of airstrikes against various areas across Yemen, killing at least three civilians.
They struck a facility belonging to the Public Telecommunications Corporation in the western province of Mahwit Saturday, leaving six others injured, al-Masirah TV reported.
Saudi military aircraft also targeted Mahazer area in the Sahar district of Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada, but there were no immediate reports about possible casualties and the extent of damage.