Yemeni Minister of Transport, Saleh al-Jabwani, called for an urgent meeting of the government in Riyadh regarding the attack on the Marib camp, which killed dozens of military personnel of the legitimate government.
Al-Jibwani wrote a tweet on Twitter calling to discuss the formation of an international investigation committee targeting the Marib camp.
Our national army pays the price of its defense of the new Yemen, so if it advanced to topple the putschists, it was targeted, and in its barracks it was targeted, missiles from the sky and the ground would come in its battle with the coups and rebellion in Sana'a and Aden. Our surgeons are bleeding, but our resolve is to spend steel to crush these projects. Blessed is this mighty army and brave soldiers. - Saleh Algabwani (@SAlgabwani) January 19, 2020 |
The Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Yemen, Abdul Raqeeb Al-Haydar, has reported that the death toll of the Yemeni army forces has risen to 111, as a result of the missile bombing of a training camp mosque in the city of Marib, on Saturday evening, and no party has claimed responsibility.
The Yemeni Ministry of Defense said that the attack was carried out with a ballistic missile, and it accused the Houthi group of carrying it out in retaliation for the killing of the Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, with a US attack in Iraq.
This bombing comes after a surprise attack launched by the Yemeni army in the "Nahim" front, in which Houthis were killed and wounded.
The UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, condemned the escalation of military activities in Yemen, especially the attack that targeted a camp in the Yemeni province of Marib.
Griffiths added - in a statement posted on his official Twitter account - that Yemen's progress with difficulty in reducing escalation is very fragile.
Griffiths urged all parties in Yemen to stop the escalation now and direct their energies away from the military front towards politics.
The Yemeni Minister of Information, Muammar Al-Iryani, demanded - in a series of tweets on his official account on Twitter - the UN envoy with a clear position and condemn the attack on the Ma'rib camp in eastern Yemen.
He added that the continued international silence regarding the attacks and the continuous escalation by the Houthi group amounted to collusion and a green light to commit more crimes, he said.
Al-Iryani said that the bombing carried out by the Iranian mercenaries "Houthi militia" with Iranian missiles in retaliation for the killing of Soleimani on a house of God in the Mile camp in Ma'rib Governorate, a treacherous and cowardly terrorist crime that disavows all Islamic and human values and beliefs and moral considerations, according to his expression.
For its part, Saudi Arabia condemned the attack in Marib, calling it a "sinful terrorist."
According to the Saudi Foreign Ministry, the attack on a mosque "reflects the underestimation of that terrorist militia in sacred places and its use of Yemeni blood."
And Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi had previously commented on the incident, and said, "Such operations by the Houthi militias against gatherings, to the places of worship with their blatant aggression, they also embody its ugly, abstract face of religious and moral values."