Yemeni Forces Target Saudi Airport Again

Date: 20 April 2021 - 21:02

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SANA’A (Dispatches) – Yemeni forces have once again targeted Abha International Airport near Khamis Mushait in a retaliatory move against the Saudi regime’s years-long carnage in the impoverished Arab country.
A military spokesman for the Yemeni armed forces said they had fired a drone at and hit Abha International Airport, according to a report by the Al Masirah TV.
The reprisal against a "military site” within the Abha airport that lies in the kingdom’s Asir region took place on Tuesday, using one of the Yemeni armed forces’ indigenously-manufactured Qasef-2K UAVs, army spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said in a brief statement.
"The hit was accurate,” Saree noted in the statement that was reported by Yemen’s al-Masirah television network. "This targeting comes in response to the escalation of aggression and the ongoing siege on our dear country.”
The Tuesday retaliation came shortly after Saree said the Yemeni defense forces were preparing for a large-scale counteroffensive to avenge the blood of Saleh Ali al-Sammad, the first president of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council.
The spokesman made the remarks on the third anniversary of Sammad’s martyrdom on April 19, 2018 in an attack by Saudi warplanes against his vehicle in Yemen’s al-Hudaydah Province.
The Yemeni forces, Saree added, were just awaiting the relevant order.
Riyadh claims it intercepts most of the drones and missiles which the Yemeni forces launch at airports, airbases and energy infrastructure, but some do inflict damage.
The Saudi kingdom and its allies have been waging a war since 2015 in an attempt to restore Yemen’s former Riyadh-allied officials.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis have perished during the aggression that has been accompanied by a crippling siege of the Arab world’s already poorest nation.