Yemen on latest raid: All missiles, drones hit intended targets in Saudi Arabia
…from Press TV, Tehran
[ Editor’s Note: How the Yemenis can keep up the good fight against the Saudis on ground and air when they are under a blockade is beyond me.
It’s like they have magicians in their underground caves that are able to keep producing ballistic missiles and combat drones with modern guidance systems in them. Even if some of the critical parts are being smuggled in, theirs is a tremendous resistance achievement to continue these retaliatory attacks against the Saudis.
One would think that, with Prince bin Salman out of the news since the middle of March, someone would have initiated winding down this useless war. The Saudis have a serious Covid virus problem and are not talking much about it. Why does this Yemen genocide continue?
The UAE seems to be trying to carve off eastern Yemen as its own colony and to grab whatever onshore and offshore oil deposits that might be there. Yes, no matter how much loot fabulously rich people have, they want more.
With all the major countries dealing with their own problems, it does not look good for Yemen to find a big brother to help it out of the clutches of the young Prince who might have been promoted too soon, before he had matured to better decisions.
Our prayers go out to the long suffering Yemeni people that this tragedy end soon, so the rebuilding can begin…Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … June 24, 2020 –
Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has said that all missiles and drones used in the army’s latest raid precisely hit their targets in Saudi Arabia, warning of further strikes on more sensitive locations inside the kingdom if it fails to end the bloodshed in Yemen.
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior member of Ansarullah’s political bureau, made the remarks on Tuesday shortly after Yemeni Armed Forces conducted large-scale attacks on a the headquarters of the Saudi Defense Ministry and general intelligence agency as well as King Salman Air Base, among other military targets in the capital Riyadh and Najran and Jizan regions.
However, the Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen claimed it had successfully intercepted the drones and missiles coming from Yemen.
Speaking to Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen TV channel, Bukhaiti said all Yemeni missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used in the operation had “reached their targets in Saudi Arabia, and none of them were shot down.”
The Riyadh regime, he said, was trying to cover up the losses it has suffered in the raids, adding that the military operation led Saudi Arabia and the UAE — a key party to the coalition — to change their position.
“The Yemeni weapons are continuously making progress, and the next strikes will be more painful and against more sensitive targets,” he noted.
Bukhaiti said Yemen was not betting on a mere hope that Saudi and Emirati rulers would someday have their conscience awakened, “but rather on the enhancement of our defense capabilities.”
The latest Yemeni attacks lie within the framework of the nation’s right to self-defense, Bukhaiti said.
Also speaking on Tuesday, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces, stressed that the operation came in response to the “unjust embargo and brutal aggression” against Yemen.
He vowed to conduct more such raids against the kingdom until the siege is lifted and its offensive comes to an end.
Similarly, Yemeni Minister of Tourism Ahmad al-Aly warned of more “surprises” given “qualitative” progress in the country’s military power, saying the Yemenis cannot remain silent in the face of Saudi crimes.
“Saudi Arabia has started looking for a savior, and we tell them that the only savior is an end to the aggression against Yemen,” he said.
Moreover, Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam emphasized that the Yemeni operation was aimed at restoring stability to the country and securing an end to the Saudi-led blockade.
The Yemenis have no option but to confront and resist the enemy, he said, urging international bodies to pressure the Saudi regime into ending the offensive.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of its vassal states have been waging a bloody war on Yemen in an attempt to reinstall a Riyadh-backed former regime and crush the Houthis, none of which have been fulfilled.
The Saudi military aggression, coupled with a naval blockade, has killed hundreds of thousands of people and plunged Yemen into what the UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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Is there a gofundme for Yemen aid ? What if someone wanted to send a couple bucks to help some starving children , is there a place we can do that ?
Are we as a people , engaged in a act of subversion with another Monarch ?
We do not tolerate Kings and princes, and we do not slaughter these Yemen people as they have never attacked us. This thing is upside down. Our support would be for the Yemen people due to our legacy , good conscience, and original values stated at our own beginning.
This is a small squad of small kings trying to take the port of Aden. Making suffering as their pathway. I tell you, it is not good in any way. The US should help the Yemen people. Here, what we are doing now, we are aiding the terrorists, much less opposing them. Bad War.
Unfortunately the issue is not just the money part, but getting it through the blockade.
It is long past time the Aliens that have been abducting us for Hybrids start helping humanity to stop killing ourselves into OBLIVION.
Wish Ansarullah had a few tactical nukes to put on those missiles – then the House of Fraud, er Saud would make peace in a hurry.
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