Yemen’s Armed Forces announced that they had launched a new military operation against the UK warship destroyer (Diamond) in the Red Sea, in support of the oppressed Palestinian people and in retaliation to the American-British aggression against the country.
“The missile force carried out a military operation targeting the British warship destroyer (Diamond) in the Red Sea with a number of ballistic missiles, and thanks to Allah, the hit was accurate,” the military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e said in a statement on Sunday.
بيان القوات المسلحة اليمنية بشأن تنفيذ عملية استهداف المدمرة البريطانية(دايموند) في البحر الأحمر، وتنفيذ عمليتين مشتركتين ضد سفينتين تابعتين لشركات انتهكت قرار حظر الدخول إلى موانئ فلسطين المحتلة، ردا على جريمة العدو الصهيوني في مخيم النصيرات يوم أمس. pic.twitter.com/UhhXvGHkdD
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Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e added, “The naval , the missile , and UAVs forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out two joint military operations against two ships belong to companies that violated the ban decision to access the ports of occupied Palestine.”
The Norderney ship was directly hit, and thanks to Allah have fire ignited on it, and the MSC Tavvishi ship that was directly hit in the Arabian Sea, he explained .
Sare’e confirmed that the two operations were carried out with a number of naval and ballistic missiles and drones, the statement read.
“The Yemeni armed forces continue to perform their religious, moral and humanitarian duty towards the Palestinian people, and their operations will not stop until the aggression stops and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted,” the brigadier general stressed.