Yemen’s strikes killed civilians, Houthi renewed his conditions

The Yemeni gov­ern­ment Strikes Against Qaeda in Abein province, accord­ing to Aljazeera video clip shows civil­ians, women and chil­dren killed by the air raid. Eye­wit­nesses said that it was an Amer­i­can heli­copter did the bomb­ing (maybe that explains the tele­phone con­tact between Ali Abdul­lah Salah and Obama after the strike).

Yemeni news­pa­per Al-Sahwa reported that whole fam­i­lies wiped out in the strike. MP Ali Hus­sein Ashal told the newspaper:

We were sur­prised by this oper­a­tion. It shows the stu­pid­ity of those who ordered it, they killed and ter­ror­ized inno­cent civilians.

For­mer South-Yemen pres­i­dent Ali Salem Al-Beidh released an angry state­ment say­ing 62 civil­ians killed among them 47 women and children:

We want to inform the peo­ple that Sana’a’a of killing Al-Qeda in south Yemen are base­less. Every­body knows that Sana’a’s regime is the one who pro­tected this organization.

As an answer to the above state­ment, the Yemeni gov­ern­ment called coun­tries that pro­vide refuge to Al-Beidh and his aide Moham­mad Ali Ahmed to extra­dite them with a charge of alliance with Al-Qaeda.

War in the north

Houthis claim attack­ing a Saudi mil­i­tary base near Saudi vil­lage Akhabah and they seized mil­i­tary Saudi mil­i­tary hard­ware, com­mu­ni­ca­tions equip­ment, and mil­i­tary vehi­cles left behind by the Saudi sol­diers after they fled the area.

Houthis leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi released his offi­cial con­di­tions to end the crisis:

- Ali Abdul­lah Saleh declares the end of the war in the north and stop the vio­lence in the south, and calls on Saudi Ara­bia to stop its war against the Yemeni peo­ple, and apol­o­giz­ing for the use of armed forces to use vio­lence against the people.

- Back to the Qatar agree­ment and accept the dia­logue hosted by Qatar to intro­duce nec­es­sary amendments.

- Ali Abdul­lah Saleh to call for an inclu­sive dia­logue includes the South and North, based on the following:

1– Respect the Con­sti­tu­tion and respect the pub­lic free­doms and human rights.

2– Free and fair elec­tions, and orga­nize what it need of legal amend­ments, bal­lot cards and inter­na­tional super­vi­sion, within one year.

3– the decen­tral­ized government.