Saudi Arabia interrupted other explosive Houthi drones
The Arab Coalition interrupted two explosive-laden drones launched by Yemen’s Houthis into Saudi Arabia’s Jazan and Khamis Mushait, which increasing the number of such drone assaults to eight during the past 24 hours.
According the Saudi authorities, the Houthi’s explosive-laden unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are the latest in a chain of escalated cross-border aerial assaults on the Kingdom by the Iran-supported militia in Yemen, which wounded at least seven civilians.
On Friday, the civil defense said that fragments from interrupting six explosive drones wounded ten-year-old child and a Saudi civilian who was injured when he is driving his car.
On Thursday, Saudi Arabia stated that the Houthis launched a ballistic missile towards the southern Jazan region, while on Tuesday; a Houthi military rocket fell down in Jazan, which wounding at least five civilians.
Indeed, the attacks on Jazan is coming after days that the Coalition said that it had intercepted a ballistic missile assault by the Houthis on the Saudi capital Riyadh and demolished six armed drones launched towards cities in the Kingdom’s south. Riyadh also said that a Houthi drone assault caused a fire in a civilian aircraft at an airport in Abha mid-February.
On his part, Coalition Spokesperson Colonel Turki al-Maliki said: The Houthi militia deliberately escalates hostile and terrorist targeting of civilians and civilian objects systematically using ballistic missiles…Those actions constitute war crimes.
