Hashid Tribesmen Killed and Injured in Sa’ada
Update: Yemen Times
In a related event, thousands of Hashed tribesmen in Amran are preparing to participate in the war against the Houthis. Media sources said that 3,000 fighters – in addition to other fighters mobilized last week- were made ready to participate in fighting against the Houthis in Amran’s Harf Sufyan front. Fighters’ names were registered and each of them was given YR 20,000 and 100 machine gun bullets.
Tribal militia’s are a bad idea in general because they lack military training and discipline. From AFP
SANAA — Nine tribesmen who were fighting alongside the Yemeni army to crush a Shiite rebellion in the north of the country have been killed in a mortar attack, tribal sources said on Sunday.
Sixteen other fighters from the influential Shiite Hashed tribe were also wounded on Saturday when the Zaidi rebels fired mortar rounds on their positions in the mountainous region of Sawad, near Saudi Arabia, they said.
Several Shiite tribes have been supporting the Yemeni security forces in their nearly three-week-old offensive against the Shiite rebels, also known as the Huthis, in the rugged Saada province where Sawad is located.
Also on Sunday a military official said that 35 rebels surrendered to the authorities in Harf Sufyan, near Saada, after two days of intense fighting with the army.
A rebel leader named Ahmed Jarran, who specialised in making explosives and mines, was killed in clashes with the security forces on Saturday, the official Saba news agency reported quoting a military official.
The army is pushing on with “Operation Scorched Earth” using fighter jets, the official added.
