The United Arab Emirates interdicted and destroyed two Houthi ballistic dumdums targeting the Gulf country on Monday with no casualties, its defence ministry said, following a deadly attack a week before.
For further than six times, the Houthis have been battling a Saudi- led coalition that includes the UAE, constantly carrying outcross-border bullet and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, and launching an unknown assault on the UAE on Jan 17.
“ The remnants of the interdicted ballistic dumdums fell in separate areas around Abu Dhabi,” the ministry said, adding it was taking necessary defensive measures against all attacks.
UAE review The National cited residers reporting flashes in the sky over the capital around 430 am.
Monday’s attack was the alternate on UAE soil since last week’s strike that hit a energy depot in Abu Dhabi, killing three people, and causing a fire near its transnational field.
Houthi- run Al Masirah TV said the group would advertise within hours the details of a “ wide military operation” against Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Saudi state media beforehand on Monday said the coalition interdicted a ballistic bullet, with remnants damaging shops and vehicles in the south of the area. It said late on Sunday that a ballistic bullet fell in the south, injuring two nonnatives and causing damage in an artificial area.
Yemen revolutionists hang to’ expand operation’
Meanwhile, Yemen revolutionists hovered to ramp up their attacks on the UAE after two ballistic dumdums were shot down over Abu Dhabi.
The Houthis said they targeted Abu Dhabi’s Al Dhafra air base as well as “ vital and important” locales in the Dubai area.
The attack “ achieved its objects with high delicacy”, recusant military prophet Yahya Saree said in a televised statement.
“ We’re ready to expand the operation during the coming phase and defy escalation with escalation,” he added.
The Yemen conflict is largely seen as a makeshift war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The United Nations, which along with the United States has plodded to wangle a ceasefire for Yemen, raised concern over escalations and called for maximum restraint by both sides.
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The coalition interposed in Yemen in March 2015 months after the Houthis ousted the internationally recognised government from Sanaa. The group says it’s fighting a loose system and foreign aggression.
The UAE had largely reduced its presence in Yemen in 2019 amid a military stalemate, but Emirati- backed Yemeni forces had lately joined battles against the Houthis in crucial energy producing businesses in Yemen.
