The Houthi Ansarullah resistance movement in Yemen has praised the army’s rising achievements in the defence fight against the Saudi-led coalition of invaders, claiming that Riyadh and its allies now have no choice but to recognise their failure and terminate the war.
Mohammed Abdul-Salam said in a tweet on Wednesday night that the Yemeni armed forces’ capabilities, particularly its air defence units, are constantly growing in the face of Saudi-led assault.
He lauded the recent downing of a US-made ScanEagle intelligence drone and a Chinese-made CH-4 combat drone as proof that Yemen’s air defence units are making progress.
“The enemy needs to realize that it has no choice but to take the initiative to announce a halt to the aggression and lift the siege,” Abdul-Salam added.
In response for the deadly war, which began in March 2015 with armaments and logistical support from the US and numerous other Western countries, the Yemeni Armed Forces regularly strike positions inside Saudi Arabia.
The goal was to restore the former Riyadh-backed dictatorship to power and smash the Ansarullah movement, which has taken control of the country’s affairs in the absence of a functioning government.
Despite killing tens of thousands of Yemeni civilians and throwing the entire country into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the Saudi-led onslaught has fallen short of all of its objectives.
Meanwhile, the latest round of Saudi raids has damaged more homes and civilian properties in Yemen.
At dawn on Thursday, the Yemeni province of Sana’a was targeted with airstrikes launched by the Saudi-led coalition, as a result of which homes and properties of citizens in the al-Thawra district in the capital were damaged, Yemen’s al-Masirah news network reported.
The coalition’s warplanes also targeted the communications network in the al-Mahajar area in the Hamdan district as well as the Dhabwa area in the Sanhan district of Sana’a province.
Ansarullah had previously recorded 27 Saudi-led war coalition raids on the provinces of Ma’rib, Sa’ada, and Hudaydah.
According to a Yemeni security source, coalition jets attacked the Ma’rib districts of al-Juba and Sirwah, as well as the al-Fara’ neighbourhood in the Kitaf district of Sa’ada and the Hays district in Ma’rib.
