Houthis Launch Fresh Retaliatory Attack Against Saudi Abha Airport

Date: 10 August 2019 - 21:58

News ID: ۶۹۱۶۵

SANAA (Dispatches) – Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement has launched drones against Saudi Arabia's Abha airport, the group's Al-Masirah TV said on Saturday citing a military spokesperson, according to a Reuters report.
The drones targeted the fuelling station and the control tower at the airport, the spokesperson said.
Saudi Arabia has been leading an Arab military coalition against Yemenis for more than four years in support of the exiled regime of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Thousands of people staged a demonstration in Yemen to express their resentment over the ongoing Saudi-led air blockade and closure of the airport in the war-torn country’s capital city of Sana’a, which has made it impossible for food and medical supplies to reach the poor.
On Friday, the protesters converged outside Sana'a International Airport in a rally entitled "Continuation of the Air Embargo and Blockade are U.S. Crimes.”
They chanted slogans against the United States and the Zionist regime for supporting the Saudi-led blockade of Yemen.
"The Saudi-led coalition of aggression must bear all consequences of continued siege of the Sana’a International. Yemeni people have the right to use all available options to break the siege and stop the aggression. The forces of aggression must take into account the last warning given by (the leader of the Houthi Ansarullah movement) Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.
"We call upon the Supreme Political Council and the National Salvation Government (led by Ansarullah movement and based in Sana’a) to take the necessary measures aimed at protection of our people,” the demonstrators said in a final communiqué.
Yemeni Prime Minister Abdulaziz bin Habtoor has censured the suffering of Yemeni people as a result of the three-year "unjustified” shutdown of Sana'a International Airport.
He said on Thursday that the airport and the strategic port of Hudaydah used to serve as the main artery for the delivery of humanitarian aid and a great proportion of imports into Yemen.
"Everyone well knows that the closure of the (Sana'a International) Airport is an act of aggression by the Saudi-led coalition, and at the behest of the Zionist regime and America,” Bin Habtoor pointed out.
Late on Monday, international humanitarian groups slammed the Saudi-led air blockade of Yemen and closure of the airport in the war-torn country’s capital city of Sana’a, arguing that the measure has prevented thousands of sick civilians from traveling abroad for urgent medical treatment.
The Norwegian Refugee Council and Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) said the three-year suspension of services at Sana'a International Airport has amounted to a "death sentence" for many sick Yemenis.