The Qatar News Agency quoted a statement from the Qatari Armed Forces, which announced with great sadness and sorrow the deaths of martyrs Mohammed Awad Salim, Mohammed Daoud Khayal and Mohammed Nasser Mohammed.
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Qatar’s foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, tweeted on Tuesday: “Our courageous soldiers sacrificed their lives and achieved victories with their blood to defend the truth and the oppressed”.
Earlier in the day, Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters and allied army units killed six Saudi soldiers.
Qatar has sent around 1,000 ground troops to Yemen, Al Jazeera reported in September, the country’s first reported involvement in the Saudi-backed offensive.
An air campaign began in March previous year.
The intervention initially targeted Shiite rebels and their allies but since March this year has also targeted Al-Qaeda, which had exploited the conflict to seize several major towns.
Past year the Human Rights Commission adopted a watered-down resolution led by Saudi Arabia, which requested that the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights assist a national commission of inquiry set-up by the internationally-recognised Yemeni government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia.
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The Saudi-led coalition will allow an United Nations plane to bring negotiators representing the Houthi movement, officially called Ansar Allah, from Oman to Yemen on September 16, after blocking their arrival for more than a month, a Houthi source told Sputnik Thursday.
