Following yesterday’s drone attack in Abu Dhabi, the spokesman of the Houthi-allied Yemen armed forces, Brigadier-Normal Yahya Saree, has disclosed additional particulars of the operation dubbed “Hurricane Yemen” a day after suggesting that the motion was behind the assault “deep contained in the UAE”.
Based on Saree, the Musaffah oil refinery was focused utilizing winged Quds 2 missiles. He famous that Sammad-3 drones “focused numerous delicate and essential targets” whereas the extension of Abu Dhabi Airport was hit by 4 missiles. Zulfiqar ballistic missiles additionally focused Dubai Airport.
“We vow to hit extra important targets within the UAE if it continues its navy escalation in Yemen,” the spokesman warned.
— Yahya Sare’e (@Yahya_Saree) January 17, 2022
The assault killed three people and injured six, reported the UAE’s WAM information company. These injured suffered “gentle to average” wounds.
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The operation represents a major escalation within the seven-year battle. The Gulf state is a number one member of the Saudi-led coalition and has to this point evaded direct retaliatory assaults by the Houthi forces, in contrast to neighbouring Saudi Arabia which has regularly been struck by drone and missile assaults, in addition to cross-border raids within the south.
The UAE overseas ministry responded to the assault with an announcement condemning “the Houthi terrorist militia’s focusing on of civilian areas and services on Emirati soil at present. This heinous assault is not going to go unpunished.” The ministry identified that the UAE “reserves the right to respond to those terrorist assaults and this vicious legal escalation.”
Different Arab states have additionally condemned the assault, as has Yemen’s Al-Islah Party. Nonetheless, the chief of the Asaib Ahl Al-Haq faction in Iraq congratulated the “the oppressed Yemeni brothers, who defend their nation and nation towards the merciless aggression of an oppressive coalition that has allowed the shedding of the blood of Yemeni youngsters, girls and the aged.” The UAE rulers have an extended historical past on this aggression, he added. “We congratulate the Yemenis on their superb progress in deterrent energy and revolutionary spirit that they’ve achieved regardless of all of the ache and struggling attributable to the conceitedness of evil powers.”
Following the operation, coalition warplanes carried out air strikes on a residential neighbourhood within the capital Sanaa, killing at the very least 12 civilians, together with a complete household; eleven different folks have been injured. Based on Al-Masirah, the strikes launched late final night time and earlier at present have been the deadliest within the capital since 2019. It has additionally been reported that over 50 air raids have been carried out throughout the nation over the previous 24 hours.
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