A military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Yemens Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that Yemeni forces shot and killedfour Saudi troopers in Quwa andHamezahvillages of the region, located 967kilometerssouthwest of the capitalRiyadh, on Thursday afternoon.
Earlier in the day, Yemeni army soldiers and fighters from the popular committees fired a short-range ballistic missile at a Saudi air defense camp in Najran, causing substantial damage at the site.
Separately, a civilian lost his life and another sustained injuries when Saudi military aircraftcarried out two airstrikes against a highway in the As Safra district of Yemens northwestern province of Saada.
Two people were also injured when Saudi warplanes launched two aerial attacks against a truck belonging to Sama al-Yemen Development Foundation in the Bart al-Anan district of Yemens northernprovince of al-Jawf.
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A man inspects damage at the site of Saudi airstrikes in the city of Saada, Yemen, on January 6, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)[/caption]Moreover, Yemeni snipers fatally shot two Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyalto former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the Osaifrah district of Yemen's southwesternprovince of Ta'izz.
At least 13,600 people have been killed since the onset of Saudi Arabias military campaign against Yemen in 2015. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war.
The Saudi-led war has also triggered a deadly cholera epidemic across Yemen.
According to the World Health Organizationslatest count, the cholera outbreak has killed 2,167 people since the end of April and is suspected to have infected 841,906.
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A nurse checks a premature baby in an incubator at the child care unit of a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, on January 16, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)[/caption]On November 26, the United Nations childrens agency (UNICEF) said that more than 11 million children in Yemen were in acute need of aid, stressing that it was estimated that every 10 minutes a child died of a preventable disease there.
Additionally, the UN has described the current level of hunger in Yemen as unprecedented, emphasizing that 17million people are now food insecure in the country.
It added that 6.8 million, meaning almost one in four people, do not have enough food and rely entirely on external assistance.
