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11.00 PM
Wednesday 28 October 2020
Agencies:
The Arab Legitimacy Support Coalition in Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia, announced tonight, Wednesday, the interception and destruction of 3 ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi terrorist militia towards Saudi Arabia.
Coalition forces spokesman Colonel Turki Al-Maliki said in a statement, broadcast on Saudi television and broadcast by Sky News Arabia, that the militia fired the first missile towards Jizan, the second towards Najran, while the third to the city of Khamis Mushait in southern Saudi Arabia.
He added that the coalition intercepted and destroyed two hostile air targets launched by the Houthi militia before attacking civilian areas in Saudi Arabia.
And the US embassy in Riyadh issued a rare warning about a possible missile or drone strike that could be headed toward the Saudi capital on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg News.
The warning came about an hour after Saudi Arabia announced the interception and destruction of explosives-laden drones launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen against targets in the south of the country.
The embassy did not routinely issue such alerts about attacks by Houthi rebels against the kingdom. The Houthis have fired missiles and drones multiple times at targets, including Riyadh, since the Saudi-led coalition began fighting the Iran-backed group in 2015 to bring back Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The warning, posted on the embassy’s website, urged American citizens to exercise caution and take immediate precautions.
And earlier in the day? The spokesman for the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, Colonel Turki Al-Maliki, said that the joint forces of the coalition managed, on Wednesday, to intercept and destroy 6 drones (booby traps) launched by the Houthi terrorist militia in a systematic and deliberate to attack civilian and civilian objects in the Kingdom.
The Saudi Press Agency “SPA” quoted Al-Maliki as saying that these hostile attempts reflect the terrorist behavior of the militia in adopting terrorist operations using drones bombed against civilians, as well as the desperation over their massive losses on the ground in equipment, equipment and terrorist elements, especially in the Ma’rib and Al-Jawf governorates.
Al-Maliki stated that the Coalition’s Joint Forces Command is taking the necessary operational measures to protect civilians and civilian objects, and that the terrorist elements that plan and carry out these hostile and terrorist operations against civilians and Civilian objects will be liable in accordance with international humanitarian law and its customary rules.
