In Hodeidah
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Hodeidah
Yemeni government forces shot down a drone belonging to the Houthi rebels over the Al Duraihimi area in the Hodeidah province.
“The drone was made in Iran and was being used to spy on the forces,” a source told the military-run 26 September news site on Saturday.
This marks the second time the army had shot down a drone this week. On Thursday, an aircraft was intercepted near the Hodeidah airport, and another one was shot down on Friday over the Al Hays area.
Yemen government forces – backed by an Arab coalition that includes Saudi Arabia and the UAE – launched an offensive on Hodeidah on June 13 to box the rebels into Sanaa, cutting off their supply lines and forcing them to work on a political process. The coalition intervened in the war in March 2015 at the request of the internationally-recognised government of President Abdrabu Mansur Hadi.
