Saudi forces keep up Houthi assault [View All]

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Source: Al Jazeera

Saudi jets and ground forces have carried out more raids against Yemeni Houthi fighters, the government has said.

The operations were to "neutralise the firing by intruders" and to clear areas where they had encroached on Saudi territory, the government said in a statement on the official SPA news agency on Friday.

Residents were reportedly evacuated from villages in the southern Jizan province and relocated to tent camps further away from the border.

The government statement said the raids were limited to Saudi territory. But a Yemeni military official speaking on condition of anonymity said Saudi forces were shelling Houthi fighters' positions in the Yemeni province of Saada.

The Saudi statement said it was responding to an incursion into its territory and attacks on its citizens.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/11/2009116125810626250.html

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