The Saudi-led military alliance that intervened in the 2015 war in Yemen announced Tuesday that it has launched - for the umpteenth time this month - airstrikes against "legitimate" Shiite rebel targets in the densely populated Houthi area. not to gather around potential targets, according to Saudi state television.
The same source said that the "secret" installation of the Revolutionary Guards, a corps of the Iranian army, in the Yemeni capital was targeted. Al-Masira television network, affiliated with the Houthi movement, which is aligned with Iran, reported that three raids were made on Sanaa airport and a fourth on a park.
The Houthis have repeatedly launched attacks against Saudi Arabia, particularly against oil facilities, using ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) loaded with explosives, following the US-led coalition operation in Riyadh in May. , whose forces were expelled in late 2015 from the Yemeni capital.
The war in Yemen, which some analysts describe as an intermediary war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, has been deadlocked for years. The Houthis have been conducting a large-scale operation since February to seize the oil-rich province of Marib, the last stronghold of the internationally recognized government in the north of the country. Its fall would be a disaster for the government and its patron saint, Riyadh. The nearly eight-year-old war has plunged Yemen into what the UN calls one of the worst humanitarian tragedies on the planet. The survival of more than two-thirds of the population of the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula depends on humanitarian aid.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have been killed and millions more uprooted, according to international aid organizations.
(KYPE-APE-BPE-Reuters / GBA)