The Arab Alliance intercepts a Houthi-launch plane and destroys a canoe bomb
“The Arab Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen announced that its forces had destroyed a Houthi boat, before carrying out an impending attack south of the Red Sea”.
- Arab Coalition successfully destroys explosive-laden boat in the Red Sea
- Arab Coalition interrupted and damaged three Houthi drones launched towards Saudi Arabia
In a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency yesterday, the coalition said that the launch of the boat took place from al Hudaydah province, accusing Houthi forces of threatening freedom of navigation and regional and international security in general.
Meanwhile, the Coalition to Support Legitimacy announced the interception and destruction of an aircraft after it took off from Sanaa International Airport.
It said in a separate statement that the plane took off from the Yemeni capital’s airport and was intercepted in the airspace of Amran province.
The aircraft was assembled and booby-trapped in the airport’s air defense battalion, it said, revealing that the Houthis had tried to transport weapons from the battalion after the coalition warning.
The entire battalion was bombed; to neutralize the threat of rockets and drones.
“The coalition had previously stated that it had detected the source of the threat to the drone, stressing that an attempt to target civilians would be met with an immediate response to the threat in accordance with international humanitarian law and its customary rules”.
The coalition had mentioned yesterday the targeting of a secret site of Iranian Revolutionary Guard experts inside Sanaa. It said: “It destroyed a ballistic missile assembly and storage site inside the Yemeni capital”.
It stressed that he had taken “preventive measures to spare civilians and civilian objects from collateral damage”.
“Since Sunday, the coalition has carried out a number of strikes on sites in Sanaa, most notably the airport, after photographs and videos revealed the airport had been turned by militias into a military base for Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah experts”.
It was also revealed that checkpoints at the al-Delmi base, linked to the Sanaa airport, had been targeted, including installation and installation of unmanned aircraft and underground ballistic missile launchers.
