Ahlul Bayt News Agency - A Saudi aggressor general has been killed in the south of the country near the border with Yemen, where he had been infiltrating, Saudi agencies announced on Sunday.
Brigadier General Ibrahim Hamzi, deputy commander of the 8th brigade in Jazan, died from his injuries after being taken to hospital, Saudi Arabia’s official news agency said, without giving the date or exact circumstances of the engagement.
He is the second high-ranking Saudi military official to have been announced killed on the Yemen border at the weekend. A colonel and another border guard were killed late Friday in a gun battle after a landmine blast along the frontier with Yemen, according to the interior ministry.
Several other Saudi aggressor soldiers have also been killed since March when the kingdom formed an Arab coalition to fight Ansarullah fighters in Yemen. In June, a Saudi lieutenant colonel died in a landmine blast in Jazan, while another general was killed by cross-border fire in August.
According to a report published on September 19 by the Yemen’s Civil Coalition NGO, 6,091 Yemenis, including 3,006 women and children have been killed in six months of Saudi Arabian airstrikes. The report also said that 13,552 people --2,997 women and children-- have also been injured during this time period.
Saudi Arabia launched its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 – without a United Nations mandate – in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
Riyadh has been targeting Yemeni infrastructure and residential areas in its airstrikes, in defiance of international conventions.
Saudi Arabia has been reportedly using cluster bombs in Yemen.Both the US and the UK have been supporting the Saudi onslaught against Yemen by supplying arms to the aggressors and providing them with intelligence and logistical support.
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