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06-01-2022
SANA’A/ RIYADH: The Saudi-led coalition has launched air attacks in Yemen’s capital Sanaa in response to a United Arab Emirates-flagged vessel in the Red Sea being seized and drone attacks launched by Yemeni Houthi fighters earlier this week.
On Wednesday, Saudi state TV reported the coalition as saying it destroyed workshops and warehouses for drones.
Saudi Arabian air defences intercepted and destroyed five drones launched by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement towards the kingdom on Monday, as the rebels based in the key Red Sea port of Hodeidah seized the UAE-flagged Rwabee ship claiming it contained military materials.
The seized ship is being held in the Houthi-held port of Salif, north of Hodeidah, and some 60km (37 miles) from the border with Saudi Arabia.
The coalition said the vessel was in international waters when it was seized, and was carrying “medical field equipment” meant for the construction of a hospital on the Yemeni archipelago of Socotra.
The Houthis, meanwhile, claim that the boat was in Yemeni waters “without authorization” and carrying military materials.
On Wednesday, the Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) said the Saudi-led coalition diverted to a Saudi port a fifth fuel vessel heading for the Houthi-controlled port of Hodeidah.
Essam al-Mutawakkal, who heads the YPC in Houthi areas, said five such fuel ships that had received United Nations clearances to enter Yemen were currently being detained by the coalition.
The war in Yemen has turned an already poor country into one of the world’s most devastating humanitarian disasters.
The United Nations has estimated the war killed 377,000 people by the end of 2021, both directly and indirectly through hunger and disease. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
