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Yemen’s army and its allies have staged a drone strike on Dubai International Airport in retaliation for the United Arab Emirate’s role in stepped-up Saudi attacks on the impoverished country, a television report says.
A Samad-3 drone hit the world’s third busiest airport during several attacks early Sunday, al-Masirah TV network reported, citing an informed source at the drone unit of Yemen’s army and popular committees.
The army and popular committees announced their first retaliatory attack on Dubai airport in August, saying it had disrupted air traffic, but which Emirati authorities denied.
The UAE is part of a Saudi bombing campaign and ground invasion which has faced heavy criticism for a high civilian death toll in its airstrikes and for a crippling air, sea and land blockade on much of Yemen.
Saudi and Emirati troops and their proxies are currently fighting a dragged-out battle to occupy the Mediterranean port of Hudaydah through which flows almost 80 percent of Yemen’s imports.
They have intensified their attacks since a fresh UN attempt for peace in Yemen failed earlier this month after Saudi Arabia prevented Houthi delegates from flying to the venue of the talks.
After the first drone strike, a spokesperson for the Houthi military forces said that it had been in response to the Saudi coalition’s “crimes” in Yemen.
The Houthi movement and its allies in the Yemeni army said after the bombing of Dubai airport with a Samad-3 drone that the UAE’s strategic areas were all within the range of their fire.
Yemen’s fighters previously claimed in July to have targeted Abu Dhabi airport with a similar drone. That report was also denied by the UAE.
Their capability to attack an airfield some 1,600 kilometers away from the territory they control has increasingly worried the invaders who have already seen the Houthi movement successfully hit targets inside Saudi Arabia.
Yemeni forces target Abu Dhabi International Airport in the UAE using a domestically-built Sammad-3 (Invincible-3) drone.
In March, one person was killed when the Houthis fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at Riyadh, over 540 miles away from northern Yemen.
Last month, they fired two missiles at a gathering of Saudi soldiers in neighboring Jizan and Najran which allegedly left heavy casualties.
The three-year Saudi-led war has devastated Yemen and sparked the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in terms of numbers, according to the United Nations.
Over 22 million people, or three-quarters of the population, now rely on humanitarian aid to survive amid the Saudi-led blockade.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist is one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror.
He is the host of TRUTH JIHAD RADIO; a hard-driving weekly radio show funded by listener subscriptions at Substack and the weekly news roundup FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS (FFWN).
He also has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS, and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications.
Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin; where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host.
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