Armed Forces Reveal Qualitative Operation for Air Force in Ad-Durayhimi’s Documentary

Quoting from al-masirah website that the third part of the documentary series “Ad-Durayhimi: Siege and Victory”, which was shown on Tuesday evening, revealed scenes of a qualitative operation carried out by the Yemeni Air Force in Ad-Durayhimi district of Hodeidah.

The Armed Forces spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e, said that the scenes revealed for the first time the participation of the Air Force in breaking the siege on the city of Ad-Durayhimi, with a qualitative operation outside the limits of expectations.

At 7:30 pm in Sana’a time, the national channels show a five-part documentary about the steadfastness of the heroes in the city of Ad-Durayhimi.

The documentary reveals the secret of an epic one of the epics of Yemeni steadfastness despite the continuous siege and bombardment for two whole years in a coastal city exposed to enemy fire by land, sea and air.

At least 7,000 civilians remained trapped in Southern Hodeida’s Ad-Durayhimi district by Saudi-led Coalition forces, in what has become a de facto two-year siege amid Yemen’s broader humanitarian crisis. Conditions in Ad-Durayhimi were dire, as civilians endured an acute shortage of food and the spread of disease and epidemics.

In June 2018 Saudi-led forces imposed a land and air blockade on the heavily populated area of Ad-Durayhimi, which lies about 20 km from the Red Sea port city of Hodeida. Saudi forces left no safe corridors for civilians to flee and then began an indiscriminate campaign of rocket and artillery strikes on the district.

Without humanitarian corridors, local authorities, humanitarian organizations, and ambulance crews have been left unable to evacuate the wounded. The roads leaving Ad-Durayhimi were rife with danger thanks to the endless barrage of coalition rocket and artillery attacks, making it difficult to smuggle food and medicine into the district.