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Houthis Attack Abu Dhabi Airport with a Drone, and Two Saudi Oil Tankers in the Red Sea with Missiles, in a New Swing of the Yemeni War

July 26, 2018 

Yemeni children suffering water shortage, July 26, 2018	Yemeni-Air-force-drone attacked Abu Dhabi airport, July 26, 2018

Oil tankers passing by Bab El-Mandeb Strait, July 2018	Abu Dhabi airport, file, July 26, 2018

 

The following news stories are from the Yemeni independent website Al-Masdar ( http://www.almasdaronline.com/category/42  ):

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Al-Houthi group announces bombing of Abu Dhabi airport by drone

ALMASDARONLINE, 2018-07
 
The al-Houthi group on Thursday bombed the emirate's capital Abu Dhabi airport with drones.
 
"The Air force carried out several raids on Abu Dhabi International Airport with the Sammad 3 drones," said the group's "Al masirah" channel.
 
The channel did not provide more details and no comment was received from the UAE side. 

Abu Dhabi airport authorities confirm incident while al-Houthi announced aerial bombardment

ALMASDARONLINE, 2018-07

Abu Dhabi airport authorities said in a statement on Twitter that an accident was caused by a vehicle transport supply without affecting the flight traffic before al-Houthi announced that they would bombard the airport with drones.
 
"The incident at Abu Dhabi airport was caused by a vehicle transporting supplies at the airport yard of the passenger building No. 1 at 4 p.m. (local time)," it said.
 
The incident (which did not explain its nature) "did not affect the operation of the airport or the schedule of flights and departures," the statement added.
 
"Abu Dhabi airports will continue to follow developments closely in cooperation with the competent authorities and will keep the public updated as they are available," he added.
 
Houthis militia announced an attack on the airport by a 3 Sammad drones.
 
This comes a day after Saudi Arabia announced the suspension of oil shipments through the Bab al-Mandeb strait following the exposure of two oil carriers of the Saudi national shipping company to an attack near the coast of Yemen, which it said was carried out by the al-Houthi group.

A fisherman killed and nine wounded by coalition aerial bombardment on the Sawabeaa island of Red Sea

ALMASDARONLINE, 2018-07
 
A fisherman was killed, and nine others were injured in a bomb attack by Arab-led coalition fighters, the Almasdar online correspondent said in the western province of Hodeidah on Thursday.
 
An air raid targeted a fishing boat on the Red Sea island of Sawabeaa at dawn on Tuesday, causing the 10 victims, all of them belonging to the same family, he added.
 
This is not the first time that local fishermen have fallen on the West Coast because of the fighting.
 
The war caused the reluctance of thousands of fishermen to hunt at sea, affecting their humanitarian situation and the collapse of their economic status and becoming hungry without material income. 

Ben Salman heads a security meeting after Houthi attack on Oil Tanker and energy minister announces suspension of oil shipments through Bab al-Mandeb

ALMASDARONLINE, 2018-07
 
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman presided over a meeting of the Council for Political and Security affairs after two Saudi Arabian oil carriers were attacked by Houthis in the Red Sea on Wednesday, while Saudi Energy Minister Khaled al-Faleh announced that his country had decided to suspend all crude oil shipments in the Straits of Bab al-Mandeb to That navigation becomes safe.
 
During the meeting, the Council, chaired by the Crown prince, heard a political and security brief on a number of topics, as well as a number of developments in regional and international events, and made the necessary recommendations, the SPA said.
 
The Saudi energy minister said that, according to the official spokesman of the Coalition for the support of the legitimacy in Yemen, two giant oil carriers belonging to the Saudi National Maritime Transport Company (SEA), each carrying two million barrels of crude oil, were attacked by the al-Houthi terrorist militia at the red sea Wednesday morning (kingdom time) after crossing the Strait of Bab al-Mandeb».
 
The attack resulted in minor damage to one of the tankers, and there were no damages or spills of crude oil in the sea that would have led to an environmental catastrophe, according to al-Arabiya channel.
 
"The kingdom will suspend all crude oil shipments through the Bab al-Mandeb strait until navigation through the Bab al-Mandeb strait is safe, immediately and temporarily," said Minister Al-Faleh, stressing that "the threats of the al-Houthi terrorist militia against crude oil tankers affect the freedom of world trade and navigation The Navy of Bab al-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea».
 
For its part, Saudi Aramco stated that, according to the Minister of Energy, «for the safety of tankers and their crews and the avoidance of crude oil spills,
 
The company suspended all shipments of crude oil through the Bab al-Mandeb strait until the navigation through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait became safe, immediately and temporarily, as the company evaluates the current situation for appropriate action.
 
Saudi Aramco is the world's leading integrated energy and chemical company, and the company produces one out of every eight barrels of oil supply in the world, while continuing to develop new energy technologies. 
 
It added that it was mindful of the reliability and sustainability of its resources, which helped to promote long-term stability and growth throughout the world. 
 
One of the two tankers was damaged during the attack and suffered minor damage, there were no injuries or a crude oil spill, he said, adding that efforts were made to move the target tanker to a Saudi port.
On the other hand, the al-Houthi Almasirah channel said that what it called the naval force targeted the Saudi Dammam submarine off the western coast of Yemen, and al-Houthi said the missile they fired on the Saudi barge had been hit directly. 
 
Al-Houthi militia leader Mohammad Ali al-Houthi said that his group's rockets "have access to the ports of other countries involved in the aggression", referring to the Arab Coalition countries. 
 
In a separate statement published by the al-Houthi version of the Saba agency, the group said it had targeted a coalition boat off the coast of the Derihmi area (south of Hodeidah).
 
According to the Coalition, one of the main reasons for his intervention in Yemen is to protect shipping routes such as the Red Sea, where Middle East oil and Asian goods pass to Europe via the Suez Canal. 
 
The coalition said it had foiled previous attacks in the Red Sea in April and May.
 
The naval force of the al-Houthi militia and the forces of former President Ali Abdallah Saleh on July 29 July 2017 targeted a United Arab Emirates warship off the coast of the western country.
 
Al-Houthi sources said at the time that the ship was targeted with "a proper weapon" while coming from the port of Assab with military material on board.

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The following news stories are from the pro-Houthi website Yemen Extra (http://www.yemenextra.net/):

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Yemeni army forces launch drone strike on Abu Dhabi International Airport

Jul 26, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

The Yemeni army forces have waged an airstrike against a strategic economic target in the United Arab Emirates in response to the fatal airstrikes by the US-Saudi-led coalition against their homeland.

Unmanned drone of the Yemeni army on Thursday waged three airstrikes on Abu Dhabi International Airport of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).The strikes were waged by the army’s Sammad-3 drone, which joined recently the Yemeni air force’ therefore, the air traffic from and to the airport was disrupted after the drone’s attack.

Yemen’s Naval and Coastal Defense Forces command, for his part,  said in a statement that the retaliatory operation “is not the first and will not be the last.”

“We reaffirm that those, who threaten international peace and security and expose the Red Sea security to great risks, are the US-Saudi aggression forces and their crimes and siege against the Yemeni people,” it added.

As well as, the spokesman of the National Salvation Government Abdulsalam Ali Jaber, warned on Thursday the Saudi-UAE coalition of a series of surprise if it would not stop its aggressive war on the Yemeni people.

Emirati aviation authorities later announced that an incident involving a supply vehicle in the Terminal 1 airside area of the airport had occurred at around 4 p.m. local time (1200 GMT).The officials, however, claimed that the development had not affected operations at Abu Dhabi International Airport, and flights continued to arrive and depart as scheduled.

On the other hand, four fishermen were killed and 14 others were injured due to raids by the coalition’s jets that targeted fishing boats off Hodeidah Coasts.

Additionally, two civilians were killed and several others injured when the coalition’s jets bombed a residential building in the Beni al-Hadifa area of the Majz district in Yemen’s mountainous northwestern province of Sa’ada.

The people Yemeni provinces reportedly announced the general mobilization to confront the US-Saudi-led coalition in all fronts.In Ibb province, a tribal meeting was held yesterday in the presence of the governor Abdul Wahid Salah, the agents of the province, and dignitaries, they called on all tribes to revenge for the crimes committed by the coalition.

Notably, the Air Force of the Yemeni Army and Popular Committees, on Thursday, unveiled a new Drone aircraft generation, with a range of more than 1,000 km, which is called, Sammad 3, referring to the assassinated President Saleh Al-Sammad, who played a prominent role in supporting and developing the Yemeni Air Force.This comes about a week after unveiling the drone, Sammad2, which has a range of 100 km and launched raids Aramco oil refinery in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

In March 2015, The US-Saudi-led coalition — mainly the united Arab Emirates and Jordan — started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, part of the Yemeni army forces, 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.

Successful operations against US-Saudi-led coalition in the West Coast

Jul 26, 2018,  YemenExtra, Y.A

The Military Media, yesterday, published scenes of successful operations by the Yemeni army forces against the US-Saudi coalition in Al-Fazah area in the West Coast.

They destroyed a submachine gun-50 in the south of Hais district.

They also destroyed a large submachine gun-14.5 with a guided missile in Maqbanah junction of Hais, killing and wounding dozens of them.

Additionally, the engineering unit burnt two military vehicles of the paid fighters with explosive devices in the east of Tuhaita district, killing and wounding all those on boards.

The Yemeni army forces regularly target positions inside Saudi Arabia and fire missiles at the coalition in retaliatory attacks against the coalition’s campaign on Yemen.

“Saudi Arabia is temporarily halting all oil shipments through Bab el-Mandeb Strait immediately until the situation becomes clearer and the maritime transit through Bab el-Mandeb is safe,” Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said.

Recently, the Leader of the Yemeni Revolution, Sayyed Abdulmalik al-Houthi said that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are seeking to pave the way for Zionism to completely control the Red Sea.In a statement, the leader said both Gulf states, which led a US-backed military coalition, are using the United Nations and its UN envoy as an umbrella to seize control the port city of Hodeidah through baseless justifications.

The Bab el-Mandab Strait, which is the southern entrance to the Red Sea, is one of the world’s key shipping lanes for crude oil and allows crude exports into the European market.

The US-Saudi-led coalition  launched an offensive on Hudaydah on 12 June in the largest battle of the war that the United Nations fears risks triggering a famine in Yemen where an estimated 8.4 million people are on the verge of starvation. Recently, It has been paused for peace talks, but no deal has been struck leaving Yemenis pessimistic over a viable political process.

Dozen Yemeni fishermen killed , wounded in Hodeidah

Jul 26, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

At least six fishermen were killed and nearly two dozen others sustained injuries when US-Saudi-led coalition’s jets carried out separate airstrikes off the coast of Yemen’s western province of Hodeidah.

Four fishermen were killed and 14 others were injured due to airstrikes by coalition’s jets whlie targeting fishing boats off Hodeidah Coasts.

The strikes hit three fishing boats off Jabal al-Tair Island, leaving two fishermen dead and eight others wounded.

Separately, two civilians were killed and several others injured when the coalition’s jets bombed a residential building in the Beni al-Hadifa area of the Majz district in Yemen’s mountainous northwestern province of Sa’ada.

Additionally, the jets targeted a fishing boat in front of the fishing berth in Hawak district of Hodeidah, killing two fishermen and injuring six others.

Notably, a total of 97 Yemeni fishermen were killed and 47 others were injured by warplanes and warships shelling of the coalition that target fisedhing boats and harbors on city port of Hodeidah since the beginning of 2017 to so far.

Hodeidah is a strategic port city which should be supporting more than 20 million Yemenis. It should be the source of at least 70 percent of all imports to Yemen,” Suze van Meegen, a protection and advocacy adviser with the Norwegian Refugee Council, told AFP. The US-Saudi-led coalition has been eager to retake from Yemeni joint forces control, according to Yemeni officials.. But the former UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheik, warned against attacking the port city over potential catastrophic consequences to Yemen last year. Martin Griffiths, the new special envoy to Yemen, echoed the same concern over attacking Hodeidah at the UN Security Council .

Sayyad Abdulmalik AL-Houthi said 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.

Despite the coalition’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters,part of the Yemeni army forces, the coalition’s bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures

Several Western countries, the United States and Britain in particular, are also accused of being complicit in the ongoing aggression as they supply the Riyadh regime with advanced weapons and military equipment as well as logistical , intelligence and ground assistance.

For this reason, the UAE refuses to appoint directors of ports and airports in the south

Jul 26, 2018, YemenExtra, Y.A

“The UAE leadership stands firmly against all decisions issued by the ministry aimed at changing the managers of the air and sea ports,” Yemeni sources said.

The source confirmed that the decision of the Minister of Transportation in the government of the fugitive Yemeni president ,Hadi, to change the director of Aden’s airport was met with a strong UAE objection, as well as protests by the union of workers and employees of the Western Sea Ports Corporation in Mukalla, which escalated during the past two days against the backdrop of a decision to change the director of the port of Mukalla.

The UAE’s rejection of the decisions issued by the Government of Hadi because UAE is the authority to appoint new managers for the ports and airports under its control an UAE affair.

Aden city, which was occupied by UK but now under the control of UAE, and the rest of the southern cities witness an insecurity situation that increased the assassinations of Imams of mosques and security and military leaderships

The province of Aden also witnesses a security fiasco that escalated with killings, looting issues , in addition to others that never happened before.

The UAE took control of Aden under the pretext of confronting the so –called “Houthis” , part of the Yemeni army forces and supported the establishment and formation of armed elements  there.

A few months ago, Emirati-backed forces were fighting and killing Saudi-backed forces in Aden. The south is moving towards outright autonomy The entrenchment of a war economy is another significant obstacle to peace.

Millions of Yemeni Children Without Water

Jul 26, 2018, YemenExtra, SH.A.

Unicef has warned against attacks on water systems in Yemen in a statement.

”A large water facility in Sa’ada, northwest of the country, came under attack by the US-Saudi coalition warplanes this week. This is the third such attack on the same facility. More than half of the project is now damaged, cutting off 10,500 people from safe drinking water”.

The organization said it ”deplores in the strongest terms yet another attack on vital and lifesaving water systems in Yemen”.

”Continuous attacks on water systems in Yemen are cutting off children and their families from water; increasing the likelihood of water-borne diseases spreading in the war-torn country”, the organization also said.

It said that the war on Yemen has severly affected the water and sanitation system of the country, leaving 8.6 million children without access to drinking water, putting them at risk of illnesses including cholera and acute diarrhea.

UN Condemns Saudi Targeting of Water Project, Deprived 10,000 People of Water

Jul 25, 2018, YemenExtra, M.A.

The United Nations has condemned in the strongest terms the targeting of Saudi warplanes for a water project in Sa’ada province, causing it to deprive 10,000 people of water.

“In the strongest terms, a vital and life-saving water project in Yemen has been attacked again,” the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a statement on Tuesday.

“This week, a huge water facility was attacked in Saada, northwestern Yemen. More than half of the project is now destroyed, resulting in the interruption of drinking water for 10,500 people.”

“Continuous attacks on water networks in Yemen are causing water to be unreachable for children and families, increasing the likelihood of water-borne diseases in this war-torn country,” the statement said.

The statement said that the bombing of the project deprived 1,500 people of water, including more than 5,000 children, noting that, “access to water remains a huge challenge for millions of children in the war-torn country of Yemen.” 

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