The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces has called on foreign companies to pull out of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following a series of retaliatory strikes against the Persian Gulf country in retaliation for the devastating Saudi-led war on their homeland.
Faraan: “In the aftermath of the crimes committed by the Saudi-led coalition of aggression against Yemeni people, we advise foreign companies in the Emirates to leave because they have invested in an unsafe country,” Yahya Saree said in a statement posted on his Twitter page on Friday night.
He added, “The UAE would grow more insecure as long as its rulers continue their military aggression against Yemen.”
On Monday, Yemeni army forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, carried out retaliatory airstrikes against strategic facilities deep inside the UAE, apparently using domestically-manufactured combat drones.
Abu Dhabi police, in a statement published on the official Emirates News Agency WAM, said three fuel tanker trucks had exploded in the industrial Musaffah area, near storage facilities of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), and that a fire had also broken out at a construction site at Abu Dhabi International Airport.
At least three people have been killed and six others wounded in the suspected drone attack, according to the Emirati authorities.
Police identified the dead as two Indian nationals and one Pakistani. It did not identify the wounded, whom it said suffered minor or moderate wounds.
Also on Friday, thousands of Yemenis staged demonstrations in the capital Sana’a and other cities to condemn the Saudi-led coalition bombardment of Yemen’s northwestern city of Sa’ada as well as the western port city of Hudaydah.
At least 60 people lost their lives and more than 120 others sustained injuries when Saudi fighter jets targeted Sa’ada Central Prison on Friday morning. Hours earlier, six civilians had been martyred and 18 others injured after Saudi warplanes struck a communications center in Hudaydah.
