Houthis Accuse Saudi Again
The quasi-governmental Yemen Observer: Conflict erupted today between a group of al-Houthi rebels and Saudi border security guards, resulting in several deaths and injuries on both sides, at the area of Smoke Mountain. Trying to illegally enter Saudi Arabia, al-Houthi rebels were caught, and conflict broke out between them and Saudi border guards.
al AhramIn a statement the rebels said that Saudi Arabian artillery had pounded the area of Al-Husama, where rebel fighters are positioned near the Saudi border…At least two Saudi border guards were injured in clashes with the Al-Houthi rebels in the Al-Husama area after the allegations had been made, press reports said.
Meanwhile, a visit to Yemen by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was postponed this week, Saleh describing himself as being too “busy” to meet his Iranian guest.
Besides Saudi rocket attacks and military support, the rebels claim, some clashes with the border guards have occurred during the construction of the Saudi wall. Is it an apartheid wall or just a regular wall? Sandbags and pipelines, three metres high, filled with concrete and fitted with electronic detection equipment.
Arab Monitor Saudi Arabian forces fire into crowds of Yemeni protestors
Sanaa, 22 October – While Yemeni warplanes keeps bombing areas in the Saada and Amran provinces suspected of harbouring militants of the al-Houthi movement and tens of thousands of internally displaced are struggling for survival, Saudi Arabia’s armed forces are reported to have entered the fighting.
Dozens of people are reported killed and many more wounded in clashes that broke out between Yemeni al-Houthi combatants and Saudi armed forces in the al-Hasmara area. According to sources from the al-Houthi movement, the fighting broke out when residents of the area confronted an attempt by Saudi authorities to erect a separation barrier on Yemeni territory, which would have hampered mobility of local residents cutting them off from their livelihoods and their regular contacts on the other side of the Yemeni-Saudi border.
Then theres the allegation that the Yemeni military is attacking from Saudi territory
SANAA — Shiite Zaidi rebels in northern Yemen on Monday accused Saudi Arabia of allowing Yemeni forces to use its territory to attack rebel strongholds near the border.
Saudi authorities have “allowed Yemeni army to use a Saudi base in Jabal al-Dukhan from which it launched attacks,” the rebels said in an emailed statement received by AFP.
“We advise the Saudi regime to remain impartial and not allow the Yemeni army to use its territories to attack us, because we would be otherwise forced to retaliate,” it added.
The rebels said the alleged Saudi green light amounted to a “flagrant aggression and dangerous intervention.”
A Yemeni official swiftly dismissed the charge as “mere fabrications that have always been repeated by the rebels.”
“They are trying to bring Saudi Arabia into the problem … Jabal al-Dukhan is a Yemeni area,” he told AFP, asking not to be named.
It is not the first time that Zaidi rebels, also known as Huthis, accuse neighbouring Saudi Arabia of aiding the Yemeni army, which launched an all-out offensive on the rebels’ stronghold in the Saada region on August 11.
Last month they accused the Saudi forces of firing across the border.
Riyadh has in the past denied the charges.
