Arab coalition says it carried out airstrikes to prevent a weapons transfer in Yemen’s Sanaa after monitoring and in response to the threat.
The Arab coalition fighting in Yemen on Sunday released footage and pictures they said provide evidence of Hezbollah’s involvement in the seven-year war.
Speaking during a press conference in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, spokesman Brig. Gen Turki Al-Maliki showed displayed footage of what the coalition claims shows instructors from the Lebanese terrorist organization training Houthi militants on how to use drones.
In some videos, boxes of drone parts can be seen stacked with some bearing Hezbollah’s logo.
the Iran-backed Houthi militia had fired 430 ballistic missiles and 851 armed drones at Saudi Arabia since the war started in 2015, killing 59 Saudi civilians.
Coalition spokesman Brig. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki said the Houthis had been using Sanaa airport as a base to launch attacks on the Kingdom.
Yemen has been mired in violence since 2014 when the Houthis took over the capital Sanaa and ousted the internationally recognized government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Malki denied there was a blockade on Yemen, adding that Sanaa airport remains open for UN and humanitarian organizations’ flights.
