YEMENIS FORCES KILL, INJURE 40 AL SAUD MERCENARIES AFTER SAUDI CARNAGE IN HUDAYDAH

  Friday, 23 September 2016

source: shiitenews

Yemeni forces have killed or injured at least 40 Saudi mercenaries in the country’s southwest in their first retaliation against Saudi air raids that left dozens of civilians dead in Hudaydah Province.
Yemeni army, backed by fighters from Popular Committees, launched rockets at the positions of Saudi mercenaries in the city Ta’izz on Thursday, Yemen’s al-Masirah television reported.
The retaliatory attacks came a day after at least 32 civilians, including children and women, were killed and scores more injured in Saudi airstrikes at a busy marketplace in the Hawak district of Hudaydah.
Sami Motair, a medical official at al-Thawra hospital in Hudaydah, told The Associated Press that scores of bodies were buried under at least three houses destroyed by Saudi missiles.The official said the death toll is expected to rise as a search is underway to recover more bodies.
On Thursday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the Saudi attacks.
The UN chief “once again reminds all parties to the conflict that they must fully respect their obligations under international humanitarian law, in particular the fundamental rules of distinction, proportionality and precaution,” said his spokesman, reading a statement.
Ban “reiterated his call for urgent measures to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure,” the statement added.