Yemeni combat drone strikes US backed -Saudi-led coalition gatherings in the West Coast: Report

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By: Yousra Abdulmalik

Yemeni army forces have struck a US backed -Saudi-led coalition gatherings in the West Coast front following a retaliatory offensive.

Yemen’s official YemenExtra , citing an unnamed military official, reported on Saturday that a Yemeni unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), type Qasef-1 (Striker-1), struck the coalition gatherings in the west coast.

On Aug.4, it  hit a Saudi military base in the kingdom’s southwestern region of Asir with a combat drone, managing to capture dozens of paid fighters in the western coasts of Yemen following a retaliatory offensive.

The possible death toll and the extent of the damage inflicted upon Saudi troops and the military base in the retaliatory attack have not been released yet.

The Air Force also targeted, earlier on the 7th of this month, the headquarters of Ambra camp in the West Coast, after an accurate monitoring operation.

Notably, 140 paid fighters were killed and more than 236 others were injured, in the West Coast, during the last 48 hours in the failed offensive operations of the forces of the coalition on Al-Duraihemi district in Hodeidah.

While the Yemeni army forces , backed by Tihama People, destroyed more than 15 machinery, including the US armored vehicle, Ashkosh, a military truck and a military vehicle. The source pointed out that among the paid fighters who were killed today, 40 paid fighters , were killed by an airstrike of the coalition while they tried to flee collectively from the battlefield.

The Amir of the so-called al-Qaeda, Ghalib Zaidi, was killed in Marib Saturday , while dozens of the coalition paid fighters in addition to Al Qaeda ranks that were killed and injured during encountering a military ground creep.

The Ministry of Defense confirmed the escape of paid fighters and al Qaeda, leaving the bodies of the killed paid fighters in Melh valley in Sarawah, including the body of Ghaleb Zaidi. Ghaleb Zaidi is one of the commanders of “Al Qaeda” in Yemen and involved in dozens of criminal operations.

A few days ago the Associated Press published a report that revealed the alliance of the coalition making deals with the so-called al-Qaeda in fighting against the Yemeni army forces.

Seperately , more than a dozen Yemeni fishermen have lost their lives and several others sustained injuries when Saudi fighter jets targeted their fishing boats off the coast of the western province of Hodeidah .

In addition, another four Yemeni fishermen remained unaccounted four.

In March 2015, the US backed –Saudi-led coalition started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, 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 claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

A UN panel has compiled a detailed report of civilian casualties caused by the Saudi military and its allies during their war against Yemen, saying the Riyadh-led coalition has used precision-guided munitions in its raids on civilian targets.

Sayyad Abdulmalik AL-Houthi claimed on one of his speech that Saudi Arabia is just a tool used by USA and Israel to fight Yemen to conquer it and wrestle control over Red Sea and Bab-AL-Mandab which will enable them to rule the world.

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