Yemen Army Destroys Third ’Saudi Warship’ in a Month
Local Editor
The Yemen army, backed by Popular Committees loyal to the Houthi Ansarullah movement, has destroyed a Saudi warship in the waters close to the southwestern Yemeni province of Ta’iz.
This is the third vessel sinking in Yemen’s offshore waters in one month.
According to local media reports on Sunday, the Yemeni forces targeted the vessel, which had regularly been shelling Yemeni coastal villages, with rockets.
Local media noted that the warship sank after it was set ablaze by Yemeni rockets.
It is the third Saudi warship to be targeted by the Yemen army and the committees this month [October].
After the incident, Saudi warplanes and naval vessels bombarded the coastal area in the district of Mukha in the province several times in a continuation of the Saudis’ assaults.
Earlier in the day, the Yemeni army destroyed a Saudi drone in Ta’iz. The unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down in the area of Siman, in Sabir al-Mawadim District. Similarly, the Yemeni forces targeted a Saudi drone on October 22 in the Jabal Asvad area of the provincial capital, Ta’iz.
On October 10, a Saudi warship was targeted and destroyed in the southwestern coast of Yemen, in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
On October 7, the Yemeni forces managed to destroy another Saudi vessel in the area, with reports saying that the sunken ship had repeatedly fired rockets on residential areas in Ta’iz.
Yemen has been under deadly military strikes by Saudi Arabia on a daily basis since late March.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States began to launch a military aggression on Yemen by carrying out airstrikes against the country since March 26 in an attempt to restore power to the country’s fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].
