TEHRAN (FNA)- Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, fired a domestically-designed and -developed ballistic missile at a strategic economic target in Saudi Arabia’s Southwestern border region of Jizan in retaliation to the Riyadh regime’s devastating military aggression against their impoverished country.
A Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the short-range Badr-1 missile struck Jazan Economic City, Southwest of the capital Riyadh, with great precision on Tuesday afternoon, Al-Masirah television network reported.
Earlier in the day, Yemeni army soldiers and Popular Committees fighters had fired a ballistic missile at the supply depots of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen’s former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the country’s Western coastal province of Hudaydah.
The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the Saudi-led war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured since March 2015.
The United Nations reported that a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in need of food aid, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger.
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