Yemeni media have released footage of a Saudi soldier taken captive in a Saudi military base in Jizan.
Sergeant Faez Mufarrah Abdullah al-Asmari was taken captive by the Yemeni forces at the al-Hathireh military base of Jizan on October 1.
Yemen's al-Masirah news agency released footage of the Saudi soldier being treated and interviewed on Saturday.
In his remarks, Asmari reassured his family about his health and well-being, saying the Yemenis have met all his needs.
The Saudi sergeant said he was injured in the head during his capture, but the Yemenis have fully tended to him and helped his recovery, adding that he is in good condition now.
Asmari further called on the Saudi forces to renounce war and aggression as Yemen and Saudi Arabia are neighbors and have religious affinities.
In September, Yemeni media broadcast similar video footage of some Saudi soldiers whom the Yemeni army, with the support of the popular committees, had taken captive during clashes on the border with Saudi Arabia.
Expressing his gratitude for the Yemeni military for their good treatment, another captive Saudi soldier, identified as Ibrahim Arraj Mohammed Hakami of the Fourth Battalion, First Brigade, based in Jizan, urged the regime in Riyadh to end its deadly aggression against Yemen.
“The Saudi army and the Defense Ministry should stop this war which is of no benefit but the destruction and killing of our brothers in Yemen,” he said in the video, Lebanon’s al-Manar reported earlier in September.
Ongoing Saudi onslaught
The news comes as the regime in Riyadh continues its military aggression against the impoverished nation of Yemen.
In the latest round of the airstrikes, Saudi warplanes pounded the Moze’e district of the southern province of Ta’izz on Saturday. A family of ten died in the strike.
Saudi Arabia began the airstrikes - without a UN mandate - on March 26 in an attempt to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.
The United Arab Emirates military confirmed on Saturday that one of its army officers was killed during clashes with the Yemeni forces.
On Friday, Houthi forces managed to drive Saudi troops and remnants of the former regime out of the southern province of Bayda, following nearly two months of heavy clashes in the region.
The Ansarullah fighters retook a military base in the town of Mukayris, located in the southern parts of the province. Some 300 pro-former-regime forces were killed in the clashes, 30 of whom were slain mistakenly by Saudi airborne attacks.
In a separate development on Thursday, UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson said the world body has been engaged in talks to end the blockade that Saudi Arabia has imposed on Yemen.
Heavy toll on Yemen children
On October 2, Julien Harneis, the representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Yemen, said "with every day that passes, children see their hopes and dreams for the future shattered.”
UNICEF said the airstrikes have killed “at least 505 children.” More than 700 kids have been also injured in the airstrikes, and over 1.7 million others are at risk of malnutrition.
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