Mon 14 February 2022:
According to a statement released by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen, a communications infrastructure used for drone attacks and located near the telecoms ministry in Sanaa was destroyed on Monday.
In 2015, Riyadh entered the Yemeni civil war to aid the government in its fight against the Houthi rebels, who hold a large portion of northern Yemen, including the capital Sanaa.
“We have destroyed a communication system used to operate drone control stations,” the coalition was quoted as saying by the official Saudi news agency SPA.
“The Houthis are using the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology in Sanaa for hostile operations,” it added.
Coalition air raids struck numerous areas of the capital, including the ministry, according to an AFP correspondent in Sanaa.
It was difficult to tell if there were any casualties right away.
It was the coalition’s first attack on a civilian ministry, having previously only targeted the defense ministry.
The operations, according to the alliance, were in retaliation for a drone attack on a Saudi airport near the border on Thursday, which resulted in 12 people being hurt by falling debris after the Saudi military blew up the “bomb-laden” projectile.
The coalition had warned that it would bomb points in Sanaa from which the Houthis launch drone attacks and requested residents to avoid military-controlled areas.
“The Houthis are using state ministries to launch hostile operations,” the coalition said.
Yemen’s Houthis have frequently launched drone attacks at targets in the kingdom including airports and oil installations.
When the Houthis took Sanaa in 2014, Yemen’s civil war broke out, prompting the Saudi-led coalition to enter the following year to support the internationally recognized government.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed directly or indirectly as a result of the violence, and millions have been displaced, according to the United Nations.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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