Nov. 6, 2009
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/w...t/07yemen.html
The conflict started early this week when the Houthi rebels — who have been fighting the Yemeni government for more than five years — killed a Saudi border guard and wounded 11 others, bringing Saudi Arabia into the war for the first time. The Houthis said that they were acting in self-defense and that the Saudis had been helping the Yemeni government in its renewed campaign to crush the rebellion.
On Friday, Saudi military officials said that they had captured 50 of the rebels and that Houthi shelling of a village near the war zone had killed four women.
But the Houthis also claimed to have captured Saudi soldiers. A Houthi spokesman, Muhammad Abdel Salam, told Al Jazeera that the rebels would carry out interviews with the captured soldiers for the news media, but would treat them with respect.
Local people in the border area said they had seen and heard Saudi fighter jets bombing rebel positions throughout Thursday and early Friday, in an area just over the Saudi border known as Jebel Dukhan.
The fighting represents a sharp escalation of the Houthi rebellion, which has flickered on and off in Yemen’s remote and mountainous northwest since 2004, rarely receiving much notice from the foreign press.
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