Yemen’s Houthis call for immediate evacuation of Aden airport
The group said a Saudi military cargo aircraft carrying weapons was at the airport as explosions were heard in the city, residents said.
- On Wednesday, Iran-aligned Houthis ordered an immediate evacuation of Aden international airport, where the internationally recognized, Saudi-backed government is based.
- Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed the order followed the presence of a Saudi military cargo aircraft allegedly carrying weapons at the facility.
- The Houthi militia, which controls the northern capital of Sanaa, has repeatedly targeted this airport, a critical humanitarian lifeline for southern Yemen.
- Intensified fighting has shattered a 2022 UN-brokered truce, as the group pushes toward the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a strategic shipping chokepoint.
- This conflict forms a volatile front in the wider US-Israeli war on Iran, while aid agencies warn of rapidly deteriorating conditions affecting Yemen.
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Houthis say warning issued 'due to the presence of Saudi military cargo plane'; no comment yet from Saudi authorities or Yemeni government
Sana'a, 28 Oct (EFE).- The authorities of the internationally recognized government of Yemen evacuated on Wednesday the Aden International Airport, the second largest city in the country and serving as the seat of the executive, after the Houthi rebels ordered the eviction of the facility. Sources of the Yemeni Civil Aviation Authority stated [...] The entrance Evacuate the Aden airport, the seat of the Yemeni government, after warning from the …
A Houthi missile has landed near the airport in Aden, the seat of Yemen's internationally recognized government, a police source said.
The representative of the Ansar Allah movement (Hushita) Yahya Sari stated on Wednesday that it was necessary to evacuate Yemeni Aden airport in connection with the presence of a Saudi Arabian military aircraft carrying arms on its territory. "Our armed forces call upon all those present at Aden airport to evacuate immediately because of the presence of a Saudi military cargo aircraft carrying weapons to kill the Yemeni children," wrote Sari on …
The Husitas called on everyone to leave Aden airport, saying that they intended to destroy it, and the official representative of the Husite, Yahya Sari, reported to Mehr.
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