A Saudi-led coalition has hit a terrorist camp in Yemen in the city of Sanaa | Houthis Stories

The coalition said the attack was in response to an “attempt to send weapons” to the Yemeni terrorist group.

A Saudi-led force in Yemen says it has hit a Houthi terrorist camp in the capital Sanaa, as it launches an anti-Iranian anti-terrorist airstrikes.

The alliance, which supports the internationally acclaimed Yemeni government against the Houthis in the civil war, said it had destroyed weapons stockpiles at the terrorist headquarters, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

“Operation in Sanaa responded quickly to the attempted evacuation of the Al-Tashrifat camp in Sanaa,” he said on Sunday.

Yemen has existed fighting a civil war since 2014 to oppose the government against the Houthis who ruled most of the north.

Thousands of people have been killed in the conflict, leaving the country in what the United Nations has called a major humanitarian crisis.

Saudi Arabia has long accused Iran of providing high-quality Houthi weapons and a Hezbollah representative in training terrorists, Tehran has denied.

On Saturday, the alliance launched a “massive” war against the Houthis after bombs were fired by terrorists. killed two people in the kingdom, the first such deaths in three years.

The attack on Saturday killed three civilians, including a child and a woman, Yemeni traditional healers told AFP.

Tanks, drones fired in Saudi Arabia

The alliance has stepped up its Sanaa threats, which are set to begin earlier this week at the airport, whose operations have been severely disrupted by Saudi blockade since August 2016, unannounced from aid planes.

The army often fires cannons and drones in Saudi Arabia, targeting its airports and artillery.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Sunday the Houthi group had detonated 430 artillery and 851 armed drones in Saudi Arabia since the start of the war in 2015, killing 59 Saudi civilians.

A spokesman for the Saudi alliance, General Turki al-Malki, said the group had been using Sanaa airport as a starting point for attacks on the empire.

Malki shared videos with reporters who said they had shown military advisers from the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah, supporting the Houthis in Yemen. Hezbollah and Houthis deny that the Lebanese group was involved in the war.

In response, the journalist and political commentator Hussain al-Bukhaiti told Al Jazeera of Sanaa that it would be “absurd” for Houthi to leave all parts of Yemen to use Sanaa airport because “I am under 24-hour Saudi control.” “. supportive power ”.

“It was absurd to see al-Malki talk about what he called the ‘intervention’ of parties outside Yemen – as Hezbollah and Iran have said – but we see back. [at the press conference] flags of the 12 countries participating in the conflict, “al-Bukhaiti said.

“What has always affected Yemenis is Saudi Arabia’s intervention within Yemen.”

Saudi Arabia has been pressured by Western allies to remove barricades from Yemen ports and the Sanaa airport, which has greatly helped to create what UN calls. the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis.

Removal of the barrier has also been a challenge for the Houthis to begin negotiations to end war.

Malki denied that there was a closure in Yemen, adding that Sanaa airport was still open to UN airlines and humanitarian agencies.

The UN estimates that the Yemeni war will kill 377,000 people by the end of the year, both directly and indirectly.

The UN World Food Program says it has been “forced” to cut aid to Yemen due to a lack of funding, and warned of a sharp rise in hunger in the country.

More than 80 percent of Yemen’s nearly 30 million people need humanitarian assistance.