TREE NEWS reports: Saudi warplanes struck telecommunications towers in Yemen’s northern Al-Jawf province on Monday, killing four workers and wounding three others. The strikes hit towers in the Khab and Al-Shaaf areas, the broadcaster said. Saudi Arabia has not yet responded to the reports.
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Hitting telecom infrastructure marks a shift in targeting logic: towers are civilian economic assets, not conventional military sites, and the casualties were workers maintaining them. For Yemen, this deepens the fragility of an already contested communications layer that humanitarian and commercial activity depends on. The open question is whether Saudi Arabia confirms or disputes the account, and whether strikes on civilian infrastructure become a recurring pattern rather than an isolated incident.
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