المملكة: An epic led by the Crown Prince … the memory of the storm of firmness that restored hope for Yemen

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المملكة: An epic led by the Crown Prince … the memory of the storm of firmness that restored hope for Yemen

In light of the major threats that took control of the region in recent years, the military operation “Storm Storm” in Yemen, which started on the twenty -sixth of March 2015, came under the direction of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, may God protect him.
The “Storm Storm” started in response to the request of Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi to protect legitimacy in Yemen, remove the threat to the security of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries, and work to combat the threat of terrorist organizations, and prepare to resume the political process in accordance with the Gulf initiative, its executive mechanism and the outcomes of the comprehensive national dialogue conference.
With the Kingdom, the Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan, Pakistan participated with the Kingdom.
His Royal Highness Prince Muhammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince, Prime Minister, arrived on the same day, at the Air Force Operations Center to lead the Al -Hazm storm operation, whose operations were launched at 12 o’clock in the middle of the night, and His Highness supervised the first air strike on Yemen, which resulted in the destruction of the entire air defenses, the Dailami base, the poisonous missile batteries and four warplanes, without any losses in the Saudi Air Force, praise be to God.

The legitimate Yemeni government

At the embassy headquarters in Washington, the Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to the United States of America at the time, Adel bin Ahmed Al -Jubeir, announced at a press conference that the Kingdom and an alliance of more than ten countries military operation in Yemen began in response to a direct request from the legitimate Yemeni government, stressing that the nature of the military operation is specific and designed to protect the Yemeni people and their legitimate government.
Yemen left the diplomatic missions and Gulf nationals, Arabs and foreigners, after calls from several countries, while the Saudi Navy postponed dozens of Saudi, Arab and foreign diplomats from the city of Aden south of Yemen to the city of Jeddah on the sea in a special operation in which the Saudi Royal Navy contributed to supporting the storm storm operation called the “Hurricane Operation”.

Storm Storm strikes

The Al -Hazm Storm Alliance began its military operations with the participation of 228 warplanes from the Arab coalition and with international support, as the Royal Saudi Air Force participated in 100 combat aircraft and the UAE Air Force with 30 warplanes, the Kuwaiti Air Force with 15 warplanes, the Bahraini Air Force with 15 warplanes, the Qatar Air Force with 10 warplanes, the Jordanian Royal Air Force with 6 warplanes, the Royal Moroccan Air Force with 6 warplanes, and the forces Egyptian air with 16 warplanes, and the Sudanese Air Force with 3 warplanes.
These aircraft carried out 2415 raids on specific locations over 27 days, and at a flight of 648 hours, and took control of the Yemeni airspace in the first 15 minutes of the start of operations.
The operations of imposing control of Yemen’s airspace to neutralize the military bases and airports lost by the legitimate government did not stop, preventing them from using the Air Force or any airspace against coalition operations, and destroying the leadership and control centers from which operations are managed, so that the coalition announces that the Yemeni airspace is a banned area and warned against approaching Yemeni ports.

Returning hope for the Yemeni people

The coalition aircraft targeted ballistic missiles, supply, catering, movements, ammunition stores, maintenance and primitive manufacturing workshops, preventing land operations and protecting the city of Aden from its fall and seizure, during which the enemy lost 98% of its capabilities through coalition aircraft strikes.
After 27 days of the coalition operations, the storm storm operations were announced to start another operation, which is the process of “restoring hope” to restore hope to the Yemeni people and confirm that the Yemeni government will support its presence on Yemeni lands and continue to build a safe and stable Yemen.
One of the main tasks of “re -hope” is to support relief, evacuation and humanitarian work inside Yemen and facilitate their potential through the continuation of humanitarian and relief actions.

Providing aid to Yemen

The three decisions taken by the government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques – may God protect him – are related to relief support in brotherly Yemen by more than a quarter of a billion dollars, and granting facilities to Yemeni residents in the Kingdom by correcting their conditions, and granting them a visa visa for 6 months renewable, in addition to allowing their children to study in free schools of the Kingdom, one of the most important decisions that dealt with the pain For them, followed by the historical decision to launch the Al -Hazm storm operation that triumphed for Yemeni legitimacy and the process of restoring hope.
Those decisions, which came after the security and political circumstances that their country was exposed to, as a result of the Houthi coup against Yemeni legitimacy, affirmed the originality of the positions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and devoted an authentic Saudi approach, starting from the close relationship between the two brotherly peoples who have the relations of brotherhood, neighborhood, fate and common vision.

Development projects in Yemen

The Kingdom’s support for Yemen continued, as it announced in June 2022 AD a package of vital development projects that will be implemented through the Saudi Program for the Development and Reconstruction of Yemen, which included 17 development projects in sectors, energy, transportation, education, water, health, and building state institutions, with a value of 400 million dollars, in addition to 200 million US dollars to provide oil derivatives to operate power stations, to meet the priority needs of the Yemeni people and raise His suffering.
As for the assistance of the King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Work in Yemen, the total amount of aid reached 15.57 billion US dollars (58.42) billion Saudi riyals, and its details came as follows:

Number of projects: 1281 projects
Development aid: 262 projects, with a total of 10.983.127.126 USD.
General Humanitarian aid: 841 projects, with a total of 4.549.027,456 USD.
Voluntary humanitarian aid: 174 projects, with a total of 36,966,466 USD.
Charitable aid: 4 projects, with a total of 9,610,689 USD.

Mass Mine Maintenance Project

In an important move to save the lives of innocent people, the King Salman Center launched, on Monday, August 25, 2018, the huge project to remove mine in Yemen, “pores”.
The project implements Saudi cadres and international expertise, through Yemeni teams that were trained to remove mines in all their forms and pictures, which were planted by the militias in random ways in Yemeni lands, with the aim of clearing the lands from the risk of mines.
The project also implements training activities and building Yemeni capabilities in the field of mines, and in July 2024 AD, the project is to implement the “pore” project for a year, with an amount of 35,998,500 dollars.