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Ansarullah fighters seize weapons dropped by Saudi planes in Yemen

Wednesday, 15 April 2015 8:59 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 15 April 2015 11:03 PM ]

Ansarullah fighters inspect a box attached to a parachute, reportedly air-dropped by the Saudi planes, at the special forces camp in the Tawahi district of the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, On April 3, 2015. (AFP Photo)

Members of Yemen’s Popular Committees together with Houthi Ansarullah fighters have commandeered a batch of weapons and munitions dropped by Saudi aircraft for al-Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen.

According to a recently released video, the consignment was paradropped in wooden crates in the southwestern province of Lahij.

The Saudi military repeatedly drops similar packages for the militants who support Riyadh’s military campaign against Yemen.

On April 13, Saudi jets airdropped the weapons close to the al-Anad military airbase in Lahij in the hope that they will be collected by forces loyal to Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

Saudi aircraft also airdropped a number of wooden boxes containing various firearms and ammunition in Aden, located approximately 420 kilometers (260 miles) south of the capital, Sana’a, on April 3.

Three weeks of Saudi aggression

Earlier on Wednesday, Saudi warplanes fired missiles at targets all over the country, including areas in Sana‘a, Sa’ada, Amran, and Aden provinces.

Fighter jets targeted a gas station and a bridge in the village of Huth in the western-central province of Sana‘a, and some raids were also carried out on residential areas in the southern city of Aden.

During an attack in Sa’ada province, fighter jets bombed a school in the Malahidh region, close to the Saudi-Yemeni border, killing eight civilians, including a mother and her three children.

*Yemenis sit near a tank used by members of the Ansarullah fighters parked in a deserted street in the port city of Aden's Dar Saad suburb, on April 14, 2015. (AFP Photo)*

Saudi Arabia started its military aggression against Yemen on March 26, without a UN mandate, in a bid to restore power to Hadi, who is a close ally of Riyadh.

According to sources in the Yemeni Army, around 2,600 people have been killed in the Saudi aggression over the past three weeks.

The humanitarian situation in Yemen is rapidly deteriorating. Many international aid organizations have sought clearances to dispatch medical and other humanitarian supplies by air and sea to civilians in need.

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