Yemeni security sources reported Houthi strikes on Wednesday in Aden, the seat of the country’s internationally recognised government, saying they had targeted camps belonging to forces fighting the Iran-backed group.
Yemen has been reeling from war since 2014, when the Houthis seized Sanaa, with a Saudi-led coalition entering the conflict a year later in support of the government. Aden was attacked several times last month by the Houthis, including on October 15, when they launched a deadly missile strike on the presidential palace in Aden that killed four people, according to government military sources. The Houthis said a Saudi strike on Saturday hit the village of al-Shariya, outside Sanaa, killing 44 people, including 21 children, and injuring 40 others. The resumption in fighting has killed more than 1,600 people and displaced more than 300,000 in Yemen, according to the UN.
They said a third projectile, which they later identified as a drone, targeted another camp belonging to Yemeni forces in the city’s centre, adding that it was intercepted. The Saudi-led coalition on Wednesday said it had “intercepted and destroyed 3 cruise missiles launched by the Houthi terrorist militia toward the Riyadh area”. Death to Israel!” according to an AFP photographer present.
Mourners prayed on Wednesday at Sanaa’s Mosque of the People and chanted “Death to America!
