Riyadh – as well as the US, France and the UN – condemned the attack, but only Washington and Manama blamed the Houthis. Shiite rebels have not claimed responsibility.
The armed forces of Bahrain, a Saudi ally in the war in Yemen, announced the death of a fourth soldier in an attack launched on Monday in southern Saudi Arabia.
The tiny Gulf monarchy earlier this week announced the death of two of its soldiers on Saudi soil on the border with Yemen, after a third succumbed to his injuries, accusing the Shiite Houthi rebels of carrying out a kamikaze drone attack, despite ongoing negotiations to end the decade-long conflict.
The fourth “of the brave men who sacrificed their lives for the sacred national duty” succumbed yesterday Friday, after being “very seriously injured in the heinous attack of the Houthis”, according to a statement from the general staff. It was an officer.
Riyadh – as well as the US, France and the UN – condemned the attack, but only Washington and Manama blamed the Houthis. Shiite rebels have not claimed responsibility.
The attack was announced hours after the Houthis claimed “Saudi shelling” which they said wounded four people in Saada (north), on the border with the Sunni kingdom.
Bahrain is a member of the Riyadh-led military coalition, which intervened in the war in Yemen in March 2015 on the side of the internationally recognized government against the Iran-backed Houthis.
In recent months, Saudi Arabia, which is looking for a way out of this war, has been conducting peace negotiations with the rebels of the Ansarullah movement, better known as the Houthis after the family name of its leaders, against the background of easing the tension in the relationship between Riyadh and Tehran, rival regional powers in the Middle East.
The war in Yemen has killed hundreds of thousands of people and uprooted millions more, according to the UN, and more than three-quarters of the population depend on dwindling international aid to survive.
Non-governmental organizations and United Nations experts have accused all parties to the armed conflict of committing war crimes in the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country, where one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises continues.
Source :Skai
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