Yemen president says rebels use "human shields"

And does this surprise you ?
A favorite technique of Muslims in conflict is to use Human Shields !

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's president on Sunday accused northern rebels of killing innocent civilians and using "human shields," in an address carried in state media.

Yemenis of the Shi'ite Zaydi sect have been locked in battle with government forces since the army launched "operation scorched earth" in August in Saada and Amran provinces.

Rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, in comments published in Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat, rejected a key demand that the rebels stop hiding in the mountains of the north, saying this would amount to removing them from their lands.
There were reports of limited fighting on Sunday, the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

A military spokesman also accused the Houthis of using "human shields" in a statement responding to footage published by the rebels appearing to show children killed in last week's air raid. He said the images were a "fabrication."

The government in Sanaa says the rebels want to restore a Shi'ite state that fell in the 1960s and accuse Shi'ite power Iran of maintaining contacts with them.

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