Yemeni army forces shoot down a reconnaissance plane of the coalition in Asir

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Yemen’s Defense Ministry says the country’s air defense forces shot down a reconnaissance plane in southwest Saudi Arabia in response to constant airstrikes by the US-Saudi-led coalition against its country.

The air defense of Yemeni army forces shot down a reconnaissance plane belonging to the coalition in Asir province.

Earlier this month, Yemen’s Defense Ministry on its website said that the fighter jet belonging to the Royal Saudi Air Force had been hit in the Asir region as it was returning from Yemen’s northern province of Sa’ada.

According to Yemeni military officials, the invading aircraft had taken part in deadly airstrikes against residential neighborhoods in the Arab country.

In January, Yemen’s Ansarullah movement released footage of the moment its forces shot down an F-15 fighter jet belonging to the coalition air force. 

In June last year, Yemeni air defense forces also intercepted and shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet in the skies over Sana’a.

On other hand, the coalition , today, attacked Hodeidah province and the wells of the city’s water project with  several strikes that targeted the wells of the water project and caused significant damage to the drinking water station, causing a partial interruption in the flow of water to the city of Hodeidah.

In addition, it waged another strike on the building of Hodeidah radio station and other strikes on the fishing grounds in the city, causing great damage.It also targeted a citizen farm in the district of Bagel, causing heavy damage to property.

Mohammed Abdelsalam, a senior spokesperson for Ansarallah movement, told Qatar’s pan-Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera on Thursday.“The Yemeni army is not after bombarding (other countries), but cannot also sit back. From now on, the capitals of the Arab coalition members will be no longer safe,”

He added, “We will not kill; we will not bombard, but will not also sit idly”.

In March 2015, the coalition — mainly the united Arab Emirates and Jordan — started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, part of the Yemeni army forces,who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and  prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.

Despite the coalition’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters,part of the Yemeni army forces, the coalition’s bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

According to several reports, the campaign against Yemen has driven the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster, as the coalition’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.

Yemen is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis with more than 22 million people in need and is seeing a spike in needs, fuelled by ongoing conflict, a collapsing economy and diminished social services and livelihoods.

Several Western countries, the United States and Britain in particular, are also accused of being complicit in the ongoing aggression as they supply the Riyadh regime with advanced weapons and military equipment as well as logistical , intelligence and ground assistance.

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