A Major-General of Houthis is among 14 killed in Saudi coalition forces attack on Yemen today in retaliation of Houthis attack on UAE a day earlier which killed three people, including a Pakistani.
An air strike killed about 14 people today in a building in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. The alliance’s strikes on Houthi-held Sanaa followed an attack claimed by the Iran-aligned Houthis on Monday on the United Arab Emirates, in Abu Dhabi. Three people, including one Pakistani, were killed in this Houthis attack.
Meanwhile, the coalition also said it intercepted eight drones launched toward Saudi Arabia on Monday.
The coalition said it had begun air strikes against strongholds and camps in Sanaa belonging to the Houthi group, and the strikes appeared to be the deadliest since 2019 on Sanaa.
It killed a Houthi Major-General Abdullah Qassem al-Junaid, his wife, his 25-year-old son, other family members and some unidentified people.
Coalition strikes around the city had killed a total of about 20 people, the deputy foreign minister for the Houthi administration, which holds much of northern Yemen, said on Twitter.
The UAE has armed and trained Yemeni forces that recently joined fighting against the Houthis in Yemen’s energy-producing regions of Shabwa and Marib.
Monday’s Houthi-claimed attack on two sites in the UAE set off explosions in fuel trucks, killed three people and ignited a blaze near Abu Dhabi airport.
Furthermore, Pakistan has condemned the attack on UAE and said such attacks violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the UAE and pose a grave threat to the regional peace and security.
In a statement, the Foreign Office called for an immediate end to attacks. It also offered condolences to the families of the victims. It emphasised that Pakistan stood in solidarity with the UAE in the “face of this wanton act of terrorism”.
