The hidden hands of UAE in Yemen’s retaliatory drone raid in Lahj

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By: Yousra Abdulmalik

Yemeni armY forces have launched a retaliatory drone attack against a gathering of Saudi-backed paid fighters, backed by the US, loyal to the ex-regime in the country’s southern province of Lahj, killing several of them, while some evidence reveal shoking data by the coalition.

A military source said that the aerial offensive was carried out after a monitoring operation for the gatherings and movements of the coalition’s forces and paid fighters inside al-Anad base .

The source confirmed that gatherings of their enemy were targeted precisely , killing dozens of the troops and paid fighters.

According to local sources in Lahj, a military command that was carrying some of the wounded from the important leaders was subjected to an overturn incident while being transferred to Aden hospitals.

Medical crews transported the wounded to hospitals in Aden, most of them seriously and critically. A number of wounded and dead were taken to Ibn Khaldun Belhaj hospital and other hospitals.

Many observers of the painful attack on the base, in which the leaders of the prominent figures who fell dead and wounded , belonging to the resigned Yemeni president Hadi their surprise at the lack of a single leader of the forces of giants belonging to the UAE.

The UAE has instructed the organizers of the ceremony that it will filming the launch ceremony of the new year by a drone , which raises doubts about the collusion of the UAE forces with the coordinators of of the Yemeni army forces.

According to local sources, the number of dead and wounded among the coalition’s troops and paid fighters in the air strike on the base of the back to fifty paid fighters, in the outcome of the final, likely to rise

Saudi-owned broadcaster Al-Arabiya , however, said five were killed and several others injured when the combat drone struck a military base in al-Anad district, where a military parade was taking place.

Some 12 more Saudi-backed forces were also wounded in the retaliatory attack, according to the report.

On January 10, A military source said that a joint operation of the guided air force and artillery targeted gatherings of coalition’s paid fighters in Ganyah front in Bayda .

On the 4th of January, guided air force carried out an offensive on the coalition’s forces and paid fighters in al-Nasr camp in Marib province .

The official spokesman of the army , General Yahya Sare’e , said that the manufacturing military unit is developing a new missile system, ana he revealed the military operations that are carried out by the Yemeni army forces , including tha operation that targeted a gathering for the aggression’s mercenaries and invaders in Khalid camp in al-Makha .

It is worthy to mention that the armed forces spokesman , Yahya Sare’e , declared that the guided air force carried out during 2018 , 38 operations , targeting the coalition ’s troops and paid fighters, including 28 operations targeted the coalition’s forces and paid fighters inside Yemen , and 10 operations targeted establishments and military gatherings outside Yemen, exactly in Saudi Kingdom and United Arab Emirates.

On the other hand, the Yemeni National Salvation Government said that attacks by the coalition forces left killed over 15,000 Yemenis in 2018  .

Saudis killed 15,395 Yemenis and injured 24,121 more in 2018, said Zeifollah Shami, according to a report by the Yemeni TV Channel ‘Al-Masirah’.The closure of Sana’a airport also resulted in the killing of 17,608 patients, he added.

In the wake of humanitarian disaster in Yemen, over 22,000 people are in urgent need of aids, he said.

This is while, 3,450,000 Yemenis have become internally and over 70,000 others externally displaced, he added.

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.

More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.

However, Saudi Arabia relies heavily on the US in its brutal war on Yemen. Washington has deployed a commando force on the Arab kingdom’s border with Yemen to help destroy arms belonging to Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement. Washington has also provided logistical support and aerial refueling.

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