The deadly bombing in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, left fourteen dead and eleven wounded, in response to the attacks by the Houthi rebels against the United Arab Emirates.
The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen has committed the deadliest action in Sana’a since 2017 with the launch on Monday night, of bombings that have left fourteen dead and eleven wounded, in response to the attacks by the Houthi rebels against the United Arab Emirates (UAE), official sources and witnesses reported today.
Aircraft from the alliance that has been operating in Yemen since 2015 bombed the Houthi-controlled capital, targeting the home of a rebel-affiliated officer, Brigadier General Abdullah Qassim al-Junaid, a former director of the Academy of Defense. Air Force, according to the official Yemeni news agency Saba, spokesman for the insurgent movement from Sanaa.
The Houthi Ministry of Health offered a result of 14 fatalities, including the military, and eleven wounded, according to the agency, in the worst attack since 2017, when nine people, including children, died in a residential neighborhood of the city.
The bombings against the capital of Yemen come after two attacks carried out this Monday against the International Airport and an industrial zone of Abu Dabi, which caused at least three deaths and six injuries in the latter, all of them workers of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), according to the Emirati authorities.
Three dead in an alleged drone attack in Abu Dhabi after the announcement of a military operation by Yemen’s Houthi rebels against the United Arab Emirates
According to the United Nations Office for Human Rights, which expressed concern about the escalation in the Yemeni conflict, before the bodies of the last two victims were rescued from the general’s residence, at least five of those who died in Sana’a they were civilians.
Bodies under the rubble
The house of the soldier who was the target of the attack and which has been completely destroyed is located in the wealthy Libyan neighborhood of Sanaa, in which five houses were also damaged by the air attacks and from where the neighbors left to protect themselves against the loud noises.
Ali al Sharafi, one of the residents, told Efe that the explosions “were very powerful and shook the entire neighborhood,” adding that the shock wave “threw people who were in the street to the ground.”
The neighbors and relatives of the soldier approached the bombed house today, where books and some furniture can still be seen among the rubble, according to Efe.
Guards from neighboring villages and relatives of Al Junaid combed through the cement and metal debris for any signs of life and the bodies of two of the dead had to be retrieved, trapped under the collapsed building.
Mohamed al Juniad, a relative of the deceased soldier, was among those who removed the rubble: “He and his family are innocent people,” he told Efe.
“Look at all this destruction! Can you imagine a house full of innocent civilians being reduced to rubble like this?”he added disconsolately.
Retaliation for Houthi attacks
The Riyadh-led coalition confirmed that it had carried out “separate airstrikes against Houthi strongholds and camps in Sanaa” and had destroyed “some warehouses and a communications system”, the official Saudi news agency SPA reported, without confirming or confirming. deny the death of the general and the other people.
On Monday, the alliance specified that this bombing campaign, launched after the Houthi attacks on the UAE capital, is targeting “terrorist leaders north of the capital” Yemeni, without giving further details.
The UAE suffered unusual drone attacks on Abu Dhabi International Airport and the nearby Mussafah industrial zone just on Monday., where the devices caused a fire and an explosion in fuel tanks, which caused the death of three workers.
The Houthis, who are backed by Iran, hDays earlier, they had threatened to retaliate against the country for supporting a paramilitary force in the war in Yemen that managed to seize a strategic province from the insurgents., which was considered one of the greatest achievements of the government side in recent years.
After the attacks in Abu Dhabi, the Emirati Foreign Ministry expressed its condemnation in a statement, noting that the UAE, the main member of the Arab coalition with Riyadh, “reserves the right to respond to these terrorist attacks and this sinister criminal escalation.” committed “outside international and humanitarian law”. (I)
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