The ceasefire between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Shi’ite Houthis is “broadly holding,” according to observers, but a handful of Saudi airstrikes have been reported, and the Houthis have been engaged in a ground battle with Sunni tribesmen in Abyan.
Abyan was the de facto capital of the “Ansar al-Sharia” statelet that emerged in 2011 during the Arab Spring, and has been dominated by al-Qaeda and its allies ever since. The Houthis took the city late Tuesday, apparently shortly after the Saudi truce began.
The Saudis are apparently viewing this as a violation of their demand that the Houthis “not move,” even though fighting a random Sunni military over a town isn’t in and of itself a violation.
Saudi airstrikes were also reported at several other locations across Yemen, though not in as large of numbers as previous days. Both sides claims the other had fired at them along the border as well, though there were no indications of new casualties in this.
If you can trust Netanyahu then you can trust Saudis, or for that matter the Swedish king.
Wars have always unintended consequences.
when this started i was sure this was simply a ploy to draw iran in to a shooting war with saudi arabiath
but the similarities between this "war" and Israel's various attacks on gaza and Lebanon are quite striking.
it seems the point is not to dislodge or really defeat hamas/hezbollah/houties but to punish the people who have accepted their position as a governing body, and prevent any functioning society to take hold while those groups are in power.