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Yemeni Ansarullah fighters has killed one Saudi soldier

A retaliatory rocket attack by Yemeni Ansarullah fighters has killed one Saudi soldier in the border city of Najran, Saudi officials say.

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that a Saudi security officer was killed when “military missiles from inside Yemen” hit their location, leaving at least three others injured.

The attack by Houthi Ansarullah fighters was in response to two months of deadly airstrikes by Saudi Arabia against Yemen.

Earlier in the day, Saudi jets targeted Yemen’s southern Ta’izz Province’s Jabal Sabir district, killing nine people, including three women and two children. The Saudis also hit two schools and a medical center in separate attacks across the country.

This comes a day after the Yemeni army, backed by Houthi fighters, destroyed four Saudi tanks after storming a base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern city of Jizan. They also managed to recapture the al-Solb mountain ranges in Ja’dan region in the central Ma’rib Province.

On May 24, the Yemeni army also downed a Saudi warplane the northern city of Sa’ada.

Riyadh launched its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 without a United Nations mandate.

Riyadh aims to weaken the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which currently controls the capital, Sana’a, and major provinces, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

Since March, nearly 2,000 people have been killed and more than 7,300 injured due to the conflict in Yemen, the United Nations says.

Yemenis now face a humanitarian crisis, as reports suggest millions of people in the war-torn country are without clean drinking water as a result of the Saudi military aggression.

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