Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters seize airdropped Saudi weapons
Members of Yemen’s Popular Committees together with Houthi Ansarullah fighters have seized a consignment of firearms and munitions that Saudi military aircraft had airdropped to allied militants in the southwestern province of Lahij.
Local sources, requesting anonymity, said Saudi jets airdropped the weapons close to al-Anad military airbase on Monday in the hope that they will be collected by forces loyal to Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemen-based Arabic-language Khabar news agency reported.
The ammunition, however, fell into the hands of Popular Committees fighters as well as Ansarullah revolutionaries, the sources added.
Saudi warplanes have repeatedly dropped weapons to militants supporting Riyadh’s military campaign against Yemen.
On April 3, Saudi aircraft airdropped a number of wooden boxes containing various firearms and ammunition in Aden, located approximately 420 kilometers (260 miles) south of the capital, Sana’a.
An unnamed local military official said at the time that militants had gained access to the munitions, noting that sophisticated communications equipment and advanced combat medical kits were among the items airdropped.
Saudi Arabia’s air campaign against Yemen started on March 26, without a UN mandate, in a bid to restore power to Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Hundreds of civilians, including women and children, have been killed in the attacks.
The spokesman for Yemeni armed forces and Popular Committees has said Saudi Arabia is leveling Yemen’s infrastructure to the ground.
Colonel Sharaf Luqman said in a press conference in Sana’a on Monday that civilians and Yemeni infrastructure have been the target of the Saudi aggression against Yemen. “Saudi Arabia is the international supporter of terrorism,” the military official stated.
A significant number of governmental buildings, schools, shops, gas stations, markets, stadiums and mosques have been destroyed in the Saudi attacks, the spokesman added, describing the Saudi brutalities in Yemen as “war crimes.”
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