QuestionMORE - Kuasa2 Arab Saudi, disertai oleh 9 negara2 lain, telah melancarkan operasi tentera di Yaman terhadap pemberontak Syiah Houthi, Duta Arab Saudi ke Amerika Syarikat berkata. Serangan yang bermula dengan serangan udara, juga akan melibatkan "aset tentera yang lain."
Menurut Duta Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, operasi ketenteraan di Yaman bermula pada 19:00 EST (23:00 GMT).
Obama mengarahkan sokongan kepada op Arab yang dipimpin, PBB 'butiran masih memeriksanya'
Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Obama telah diberi kuasa peruntukan sokongan logistik dan perisikan kepada Majlis Kerjasama Teluk (GCC) led operasi tentera di Yaman, White House berkata dalam satu kenyataan, yang mengesahkan bahawa Washington mempunyai komunikasi yang rapat dengan Hadi, Arab Saudi dan negara-negara GCC lain sebelum pelancaran operasi ketenteraan.
"Walaupun tentera Amerika Syarikat tidak mengambil tindakan ketenteraan secara langsung di Yemen untuk menyokong usaha ini, kita mewujudkan Cell Perancangan Bersama dengan Arab Saudi untuk menyelaraskan sokongan Amerika Syarikat tentera dan perisikan," kata kenyataan itu.
Selain itu, White House menggesa Houthis untuk segera menghentikan "tindakan ketenteraan tidak stabil" dan kembali semula ke dialog politik dengan kerajaan Yaman yang digulingkan.
Al Arabiya melaporkan bahawa pesawat perang daripada Arab Tentera Udara Diraja mengebom kedudukan militia Yemen Houthi, menyasarkan pertahanan udara mereka.
Gabungan Arab diketuai telah mengisytiharkan ruang udara Yaman yang "zon terhad." Kapal di rantau ini juga telah menggesa untuk tidak mendekati pelabuhan Yaman kerana operasi tentera yang sedang berjalan.
Lebih daripada 20 orang telah dilaporkan mati dan lebih 30 lagi yang cedera berikut serangan udara Arab Saudi yang dipimpin di Yaman, agensi berita Sputnik yang dinamakan keselamatan tempatan dan sumber perubatan sebagai berkata.
Majoriti mogok sekitar Sanaa melanda kawasan kediaman yang terletak berhampiran lapangan terbang antarabangsa di ibu negara. Bangunan kerajaan dan lapangan terbang juga telah melanda semasa serangan.
Laporan dari tanah menunjukkan bahawa kuasa-kuasa Arab telah mengebom sebuah pejabat milik pemberontak Houthi di kawasan Jiraf Sana'a ini. Saluran TV Houthi yang dikendalikan dilaporkan berpuluh-puluh mangsa serangan udara awam berikut utara Sanaa.
Penduduk berkata pesawat perang disasarkan lapangan terbang di ibu negara, menurut Reuters.
Houthis digunakan berat api anti-pesawat untuk bertindak balas kepada pengeboman.
Satu lagi serangan kapal terbang perang telah dikatakan telah dilancarkan pada Dulaimi pangkalan udara tentera Sana'a ini. Al-Jubair berkata kepada Al-Jazeera bahawa pejuang Houthi berada dalam kawalan senjata balistik dan berat Yaman dan boleh mengambil alih tentera udara negara.
Laporan memetik perkhidmatan keselamatan Yaman berkata, 4 jet Sukhoi ditempatkan di pangkalan udara tentera Dulaimi musnah dalam serangan udara. Sementara itu, satu laporan Al Arabiya mendakwa serangan Arab yang dipimpin memusnahkan pangkalan udara bersama-sama dengan beberapa senjata, serta mengambil kebanyakan pertahanan udara pemberontak '.
Sementara itu, Arab Saudi, Emiriah Arab Bersatu, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait dan mengeluarkan kenyataan bersama mengatakan bahawa mereka "memutuskan untuk menolak militia Houthi, Al-Qaeda dan ISIS (Negara Islam) di negara ini." Negara-negara Teluk berkata mereka bertindak balas kepada "ancaman besar" kepada kestabilan rantau ini, dengan mengatakan bahawa perjuangan mereka adalah untuk "menolak pencerobohan Houthi" di Yaman.
Al-Jubeir berkata gabungan 10 negara telah melancarkan kempen "untuk melindungi dan mempertahankan kerajaan yang sah" Presiden Yaman Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi selepas rayuannya untuk campur tangan.
Pembantu Hadi telah mendedahkan bahawa presiden adalah "dalam semangat yang tinggi" dan kekal di pangkalan Aden di selatan Yaman. "Presiden . . . berterima kasih negara-negara Teluk, Mesir, Jordan, dan Sudan, dan semua negara-negara di rantau ini," pengarah pejabat Hadi, Mohammed Marem, kepada Reuters. Serangan itu telah "dipulihkan penentuan rakyat" untuk memerangi Houthis, katanya.
Arab Saudi merancang untuk melakukan 100 pesawat perang dan 150,000 tentera untuk serangan Yaman itu, menurut Al Arabiya. Emiriah Arab Bersatu, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan dan juga bersedia untuk menyumbang pesawat, manakala Mesir, Pakistan, Jordan, Sudan dan ingin menyumbang kepada operasi darat.
Mesir menyediakan sokongan politik dan ketenteraan untuk menjalani pembedahan, kata media kerajaan negara itu. Kaherah bersedia untuk mengambil bahagian dalam operasi udara, laut dan darat jika perlu, Kementerian Luar Mesir telah diumumkan.
Laporan media berkata, Jordan, Sudan, Maghribi dan Pakistan juga merupakan sebahagian daripada gabungan itu dan telah menawarkan sokongan mereka untuk operasi tentera di Yaman.
Walaupun duta Arab Saudi menegaskan Washington hanya "berunding" Riyadh, seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat memberitahu Reuters dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan bahawa Amerika telah menyokong operasi ketenteraan dengan cara yang tidak ditentukan.
Pemimpin Houthi telah seterusnya berjenama serangan Arab sebagai "pencerobohan" dan memberi amaran bahawa ia akan seret kawasan Teluk keseluruhan ke dalam konflik.
"Terdapat satu pencerobohan dijalankan di Yaman dan kita akan menghadapinya dengan berani," ahli jawatan politik Houthi, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, memberitahu Al Jazeera. "Operasi Tentera akan seret kawasan yang berperang yang luas."
Sementara itu, timbalan jurucakap PBB Farhan Haq kepada TASS bahawa PBB sedar Arab Saudi melancarkan operasi tentera di Yaman dan sedang mencari maklumat lanjut. Hanya beberapa jam sebelum pembedahan, Haq kepada wartawan bahawa PBB tidak percaya dalam tindakan tentera untuk menyelesaikan konflik di Yaman.
Sebelum pelancaran serangan di Yaman, militan Houthi mendakwa telah menawan pelabuhan selatan Aden, kubu kuat Presiden Hadi. Para pejuang berkata bandar adalah di bawah kawalan mereka dan penyokong presiden telah ditangkap.
Para pemberontak telah mengumumkan 20 juta riyal (US $ 100,000) ganjaran untuk menangkap Hadi, selepas mendakwa bahawa dia lari dari negara itu, yang berpangkalan di Lebanon Al-Manar TV melaporkan.
Pada bulan Ogos 2014, pemberontak Houthi bergerak dari utara dan menuntut pembaharuan ekonomi dan politik. Pada bulan September, mereka merampas pemasangan negeri utama di Sanaa.
SAUDI Arabia bombs Yemen, Launches Coalition
Op Against Houthi REBELS . . .
Saudi Arabian forces, joined by nine other countries, have launched a military operation in Yemen against Shiite Houthi rebels, the Saudi ambassador to the US said. The offensive, which started with airstrikes, will also involve “other military assets.”
According to Ambassador Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, the military operation in Yemen started at 7 p.m. EST (11 p.m. GMT).
Obama ordered support to Saudi-led op, UN still ‘checking details’
US President Obama has authorized the provision of logistical and intelligence support to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-led military operations in Yemen, the White House said in a statement, confirming that Washington had close communication with Hadi, the Saudis and other GCC states prior to the launch of the military operation.
“While US forces are not taking direct military action in Yemen in support of this effort, we are establishing a Joint Planning Cell with Saudi Arabia to coordinate US military and intelligence support,” the statement said.
Moreover, the White House urged the Houthis to immediately halt “destabilizing military actions” and to return to political dialogue with the deposed Yemeni government.
Al Arabiya reported that warplanes of the Royal Saudi Air Force bombed positions of Yemen’s Houthi militia, targeting their air defenses.
The Saudi-led coalition has declared Yemeni airspace a “restricted zone.” Ships in the region have also been urged not to approach Yemen’s ports due to the ongoing military operation.
More than 20 people have reportedly died and over 30 others were injured following Saudi Arabia-led airstrikes in Yemen, Sputnik news agency cited local security and medical sources as saying.
The majority of the strikes around Sanaa hit residential areas located near the capital’s international airport. Government buildings and the airport were also hit during the offensive.
Reports from the ground indicate that Saudi forces have bombed an office belonging to Houthi rebels in Sanaa’s Jiraf area. A Houthi-run TV channel reported dozens of civilian casualties following airstrikes north of Sanaa.
Residents said that warplanes targeted the capital’s airport, according to Reuters.
Houthis used heavy anti-aircraft fire to respond to the bombing.
Another warplane attack was said to have been launched on Sanaa’s Dulaimi military airbase. Al-Jubair told Al Jazeera that Houthi fighters are in control of Yemeni’s ballistic and heavy weaponry and could be taking over the country’s air force.
Reports citing Yemeni security services said four Sukhoi jets stationed at the Dulaimi military airbase were destroyed in airstrikes. Meanwhile, an Al Arabiya report claimed that Saudi-led strikes destroyed the airbase along with several arsenals, as well as taking out most of the rebels’ air defenses.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait issued a joint statement saying that they “decided to repel Houthi militias, Al-Qaeda and ISIS (Islamic State) in the country.” The Gulf states said they were responding to a “major threat” to the stability of the region, saying that their cause is to “repel Houthi aggression” in Yemen.
Al-Jubeir said the 10-country coalition launched the campaign “to protect and defend the legitimate government” of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after his appeal to intervene.
Hadi’s aide has revealed that the president is “in high spirits” and has remained at his Aden base in the south of Yemen. “The president...thanks Gulf countries, Egypt, Jordan, and Sudan, and all countries in the region,” the director of Hadi's office, Mohammed Marem, told Reuters. The offensive has “restored people's determination” to fight against the Houthis, he said.
Saudi Arabia is planning to commit 100 warplanes and 150,000 soldiers to the Yemen offensive, according to Al Arabiya. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan are also willing to contribute aircrafts, while Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, and Sudan want to contribute to ground operations.
Egypt is providing political and military support for the operation, the country’s state media said. Cairo is prepared to take part in air, naval and ground operations if necessary, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry has announced.
Media reports said that Jordan, Sudan, Morocco and Pakistan are also part of the coalition and have offered their support for military operation in Yemen.
While the Saudi envoy insisted Washington only “consulted” Riyadh, a US official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that America has been supporting the military operation in an unspecified way.
Houthi leaders have in turn branded the Saudi offensive as “aggression” and warned that it will drag the entire Gulf region into conflict.
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“There is an aggression underway on Yemen and we will confront it valiantly,” a member of the Houthi political office, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, told Al Jazeera. “Military operations will drag the region to a wide war.”
Meanwhile, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told TASS that the UN is aware of Saudi Arabia launching a military operation in Yemen and is looking into more details. Just a few hours before the operation, Haq told journalists that the UN does not believe in military actions to resolve the conflict in Yemen.
Before the launch of the offensive in Yemen, Houthi militants claimed to have captured the southern seaport of Aden, President Hadi’s stronghold. The fighters said the city was under their control and the president’s supporters were being arrested.
The rebels have announced a 20 million riyal (US$100,000) reward for Hadi’s capture, after alleging that he fled the country, Lebanon-based Al-Manar TV reported.
In August 2014, Houthi rebels moved in from the north and demanded economic and political reforms. In September, they seized key state installations in Sanaa.
As Houthis took command of the capital last month, the US embassy closed its operations in Sanaa, while the two rival governments in the north and south have continued to compete for power. Last weekend, Shiite rebels seized Yemen’s third largest city Taiz.
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