Yemeni Forces Destroy Saudi Army's Abrams Tank

TEHRAN (defapress)- Yemen's army and Ansarullah popular forces targeted and destroyed a US-made Abrams Tank of the Riyadh army in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan Region.

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Date: 27 November 2018 - 16:17

The operation was carried out on Monday in al-Khubah village in Jizan Province, Southwestern Saudi Arabia.

The US-made Saudi-operated Abrams Tank was traveling through the Jizan Region, which neighbors Yemen’s Northern border.

This is the second Abrams Tank destroyed in the last 30 days.

Yemeni sources announced that the attack has been staged in retaliation for the Saudi daily bombardment of residential areas in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia and some of its allies, including the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Sudan, launched a brutal war against Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

The aggression initially consisted of a bombing campaign but was later coupled with a naval blockade and the deployment of ground forces to Yemen. Around 20,000 people have died since the war began, says Yemen’s Health Ministry.

The Saudi-led war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories. The United Nations (UN) has said that a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in dire need of food, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger.

Despite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

In August, a Saudi air raid hit a school bus as it drove through a market in the town of Dhahyan in Sa’ada Province in Northwestern Yemen, killing a total of 51 people, among them 40 children, and injuring 79 others, mostly children.

According to several reports, the Saudi-led air campaign against Yemen has driven the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster, as Saudi Arabia's deadly campaign prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.

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