Saudi Arabia has documented more than 600 cases of Houthi incursions along the Saudi-Yemeni border since the beginning of Operation Decisive Storm until Friday.
Despite the difficult terrain, there is night surveillance by Border Guard. This surveillance enables the Saudis to use appropriate force to attack the Houthi positions and prevent incursions into Saudi territory.
Brig. Gen. Ahmad Al-Assiri, consultant at the minister of defense’s office, said that coalition forces had attacked the Houthis south of the Saudi border since the start of the military operation.
Lt. Hassan Aqeeli, head of the Border Guard in Jazan, said there were three methods of border surveillance. One is using surveillance towers. There is mobile surveillance carried out by special vehicles in certain areas and there are instruments carried by soldiers as they move around.
Aqeeli said the systems provided the Border Guard with the ability to monitor movements on both sides of the border and gave soldiers the means to detect any incursion.
“The Border Guard are on duty 24/7 in very rough and difficult terrain,” he added.
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UAE fighter pilots wrote Sulieman Al-Maliki’s name on their jets before carrying out the airstrike. — Photo courtesy: WAM
A statement by UAE press agency WAM described the airstrike as “successful” as fighter jets struck a
surface-to-air missile base and a radar site in Maarib and returned to their bases safely.
Abu Dhabi, 3rd April, 2015 (WAM) -- UAE fighter jets today launched a successful airstrike against a number of Houthi-controlled targets in Yemen.
The airstrike was dubbed Al Maliki operation in memory of Sulieman bin Ali Al Harazi Al Maliki, the first Saudi soldier killed in the Operation Decisive Storm as part of Saudi-led Arab coalition of ten nations to reinstate legitimacy in Yemen.
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A Yemeni supporter of the Saudi-led coalition’s Operation Decisive Storm against the Houthi rebels in Yemen carries a portrait of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman during a demonstration against the Houthi rebels in the southwestern city of Taiz on Saturday. — AFP