Dubai airport hit in second Yemeni drone strike

A Samad-3 drone hit the world's third busiest airport during several attacks early Sunday, al-Masirah TV network reported, citing an informed source at the drone unit of Yemen's army and popular committees.

Yemen's army and popular committees announced their first retaliatory attack on Dubai airport in August, disrupting air traffic which Emirati authorities rejected. 

The UAE is part of a Saudi bombing campaign and ground invasion which has faced heavy criticism for a high civilian death toll in its airstrikes and for a crippling air, sea and land blockade on much of Yemen. 

Saudi and UAE troops and their proxies are currently fighting a dragged-out battle to occupy the Mediterranean Port of Hudaydah through which flows almost 80 percent of Yemen's imports. 

They have intensified their attacks since a fresh UN attempt



for peace in Yemen failed earlier this month after Saudi Arabia prevented Ansarullah delegates from flying to the venue of the talks.  

A spokesperson for the Ansarullah military forces said after the first drone strike that it was in response to the Saudi coalition's “crimes” in Yemen.

The Ansarullah Movement and its allies in the Yemeni army said after the bombing of Dubai airport with a Samad-3 drone, all the strategic areas of the UAE were in the range of their fire.

Yemen's fighters previously said in July to have targeted Abu Dhabi airport with a similar drone, which was also denied by the UAE.

Their capability to attack an airfield some 1,600 kilometers away from the territory they control has increasingly worried the invaders who have already seen the Ansarullah Movement successfully hit targets inside Saudi Arabia.