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Yemeni army, allies forces shoot down Saudi-led reconnaissance drone in Jizan

Tuesday, 14 January 2020 6:35 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 14 January 2020 6:41 PM ]

This grab from a video made on August 21, 2019, shows a Yemeni man searching the wreckage of a Saudi-led drone after it was shot down by Yemeni air defense forces and their allies in the skies over Yemen's southwestern Dhamar province. (Photo by AFP)

Yemeni army forces, backed by allied fighters from the Popular Committees, have intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the Saudi-led military coalition as it was flying in the skies over the kingdom’s southern border region of Jizan.

The media bureau of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement announced in a statement that Yemeni air defense forces and their allies shot down the drone with a surface-to-air missile over Jabal al-Amoud mountainous area on Tuesday evening.

Last week, Yemeni air defense units intercepted and targeted a Saudi-led CH-4 drone while flying in the skies over Yemen's northern province of al-Jawf.

Yemeni forces shoot down Saudi-led reconnaissance drone in Jawf

Yemeni army soldiers and their allies have shot down a Saudi-led reconnaissance drone in the skies over the country’s northern province of al-Jawf.

On January 1, Ansarullah announced in a statement that Yemeni air defense forces and their allies had shot down a Saudi-led unmanned aerial vehicle as it was on a reconnaissance mission over al-Dayer area of Saudi Arabia’s southern border region of Jizan, situated 966 kilometers (600 miles) south of the capital Riyadh.

Yemeni forces shoot down another Saudi-led reconnaissance drone in Jizan

Shooting down the drones is commonplace now in the region.

The development came a day after Saree said Yemeni forces and their allies had shot down a Saudi-led spy drone as it was flying in the skies over al-Tina area of the Hayran district in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah.

The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces identified the downed aircraft as a Chinese-made Phantom unmanned aerial vehicle.

Yemeni forces, allies shoot down Saudi-led surveillance drone in Hajjah

Yemeni air defense forces and their allies have shot down another Saudi-led drone as it was on a reconnaissance mission in the skies over the country’s northwestern province of Hajjah.

Yemeni air defense forces and their allies shot down a Turkish-built Vestel Karayel drone with a precision missile on December 30 last year.

Saree said at the time the aircraft was struck as it was on a surveillance mission over al-Salif coastal village in Yemen’s western province of Hudaydah.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing Ansarullah movement.

The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past four and a half years.

The UN says over 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.

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