The Saudi-led coalition, which is waging a multifaceted war in Yemen, allegedly intercepted and destroyed a remote-controlled bomb-laden ship in the southern Red Sea on August 30. Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki said the unmanned surface vehicle (USV) was introduced through Iran-backed Houthis from the port city of Hodeidah in Yemen, according to Saudi state news firm SPA.
The spokesman reportedly accused Houthi militants of flagrant violation of foreign humanitarian law and the ceasefire provisions of the Stockholm Agreement. According to the SPA, the coalition’s joint forces command said the Houthis are the port city like a ballistic missile, a bomb-laden drone, a USV release site, and a blind deployment of naval mines.
“The Coalition Joint Forces Command will continue to implement all the rigorous and dissuasive measures that oppose this terrorist defense force and to neutralize, destroy those functions that pose a risk to regional and foreign security,” the spokesman said.
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Yemen has been plagued by internal clashes for years in which factions are subsidized through external forces such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.In 2015, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates took part in the clash at the request of former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu.Mansour Hadi, and continued to fight the disproportionate suffering of the civilian population.
More than 100,000 people have lost their lives in the ongoing civil war and millions have foreign food aid, making it one of the biggest humanitarian crises. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for a rapid global ceasefire, fearing a collapse of fitness systems in war-torn countries amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 27 April, the Southern Yemen Transitional Council (CTS) declared a state of emergency in Aden and declared that it would “rule” the key port city in the south and other southern provinces.Tensions escalated after the government of five southern provinces rejected the Later, in June, STC took from Socotra, a Yemeni island in the Arabian Sea, exacerbating tensions between rival groups.
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