On Wednesday, the Yemeni forces fired artillery on military bases in the southwestern Jizan Region.
The fighters also launched several retaliatorymissiles on a military base in Zahran in the Asir border region of Saudi Arabia.
The Yemenis also targeted a Saudi weapons depot in Asir.
Saudi strikes claim more lives
The strikes came as at least three people have beenkilled and one person has been wounded in the latest Saudi airstrikes in Yemen, which has come under weeks of relentless attacks by the Riyadh regime.
A deadly air raid targeted the southern province of Shabwah on Wednesday while Saudi forces also launched two airstrikes on the northwestern provinces ofSa'ada andHajjah.
Saudi warplanes alsobombarded a military position in the northern province ofJawf.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"]
A Saudi soldier from an artillery unit walks near ammunition at a position close to the Saudi-Yemeni border, in Saudi Arabia's southwestern province of Jizan, April 13, 2015. AFP[/caption]The Arabic-languageal-Masirahsatellite television network reported onTuesday that Yemeni armyforces with the help of popular committees destroyed a Saudi military vehicle in the southwestern port city of Aden.
Saudi military plane in Aden
Meanwhile, aSaudi military plane reportedly landed Wednesday in Yemen's second city of Aden in another blatant violation of Yemen's sovereignty and territorial integrityas well asin defiance of international calls to avoid interference in the impoverished country's internal affairs.
The airport hadreopened after four months of fighting."This is the beginning of operations at the airport," Badr Basalma, Yemen's formertransport minister,told reporters at the site, which Saudi-backed militants reportedly recaptured last week following fierce clashes with Yemen's popular committees. Basalma gave no details about the cargo of the Saudi military plane.
On Friday,Saudi Arabia reportedly had alsosent Special Forces into Yemen under the pretext of escorting some fugitive former Yemeni officials back into its war-torn southern neighbor.
Riyadhs military campaign against Yemen began on March 26 withouta UN mandate in an attempt to undermine theAnsarullah movement and to restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
According to a recent UN report, at least1,670 civilians have been killedand another 3,829 peopleinjured since the beginning ofthe Saudi military campaign.
By Press TV
