Yemen wakes up with new victims of war. At least 14 people were killed in Sanaa overnight Monday-Tuesday in raids by the Saudi-led military coalition, in response to a deadly attack by Yemeni rebels in the United Arab Emirates.
The attack carried out on Monday using drones and claimed by the Houthi rebels, the first to kill on Emirati soil, was strongly condemned abroad, in particular by the United States and France.
In response, the coalition, of which the Emirates is a member, which has been fighting Yemeni insurgents since 2015, has increased retaliatory raids on the rebel-controlled capital of Yemen since Monday evening.
“The number of victims of the bombings has risen to 14 dead and 11 wounded”, said a medical source in Sanaa. The previous toll reported 11 dead.
Residents of the capital were clearing the rubble on Tuesday in the hope of finding survivors in the rubble, while two buildings were blown up by the raids.
A rebel leader is dead
The rebels for their part announced the death of a general, Abdallah Qassem Al-Jounaid, director of the faculty of aviation and air defense.
This manager was killed “with members of his family, a heinous crime committed by the air force of the aggressor (the coalition) which targeted his home on Monday evening”, according to the Saba rebel news agency.
“There is no end in sight for the war in Yemen”
The Houthis claimed on their Al-Massira channel on Monday that they had “targeted important and sensitive Emirati facilities and site” using ballistic missiles and drones.
In Abu Dhabi, three tank trucks exploded “near the storage tanks” of the Abu Dhabi oil company, killing two Indian nationals and a Pakistani, the official Emirati agency said on Monday. WAM, reporting six injuries.
The rebel attack has opened a new front in the war in Yemen and further reduces hopes for a settlement of the conflict, which displaced millions of people in what was already the poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula.
“There is no end in sight for the war in Yemen”, said Elisabeth Kendall, a specialist researcher at the British University of Oxford.
“On the contrary, the conflict is intensifying and new fronts are opening up, both at the national level and now at the regional level”, she observes.
The United States promised to “hold to account” the insurgents, while the United Kingdom, France and the European Union also condemned these attacks.
“These attacks threaten the security of the United Arab Emirates and regional stability,” said French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
A conflict that left nearly 380,000 dead
The coalition intervenes in Yemen to support government forces once morest the rebels, who seized the capital Sanaa in 2014.
According to the UN, the conflict has claimed 377,000 lives, direct and indirect victims of a war that has lasted for more than seven years.
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