Yemeni Forces Release Footage on Abu Dhabi Airport ?Strike

Date: 24 May 2019 - 21:58

News ID: ۶۶۳۱۵

SANAA (Dispatches) – Yemeni forces have released footage verifying a retaliatory attack on the Abu Dhabi International Airport carried out last year, which had been denied by officials of the United Arab Emirates.
The video shows a Sammad-3 (Invincible-3) unmanned aerial vehicle flying at low altitude before it fires a missile, setting two trucks parked at the airport ablaze.
The attack took place on July 26, 2018 when Yemeni army soldiers, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, launched an airstrike against the airport using a domestically-built long-endurance Sammad-3 (Invincible-3) unmanned aerial vehicle.
Abdullah al-Jafri, a spokesman for Yemeni air force and air defense, said at the time that the drone attack on Abu Dhabi International Airport had halted flights to and from the airport, adding that this was the first time that Yemeni forces used a drone to attack the airport.
He added that Yemeni forces will continue to target the infrastructure of countries that have taken part in the aggression against Yemen in future attacks.
Meanwhile, Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, launched an airstrike against an MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile system stationed at an airport in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Najran.
Yemeni soldiers and their allies attacked the U.S.-built system on Thursday, using a domestically-designed and -manufactured Qasef-2K (Striker-2K) combat drone, a Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the local Arabic-language al-Masirah television network.
The source added that the aerial attack was carried out following close surveillance by Yemeni forces.
According to Yemeni sources, this is the third consecutive attack by Yemeni forces' drones on the Saudi airport.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
The U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the Saudi-led war has claimed the lives of over 60,000 Yemenis since January 2016.

Saudi soldiers stand guard before aid supplies are unloaded from a Saudi air force cargo plane at an airfield in Yemen's central province of Ma'rib, on March 12, 2018.