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the Yemeni Houthi rebels, backed by Iran, today launched a rocket at a facility of the oil giant Saudi Aramco in Jeddah, in western Saudi Arabia, causing a fire in an oil tank, according to converging sources.
“There was an explosion following a terrorist missile attack, causing a fire in an oil tank at the oil distribution terminal in northern Jeddah,” the Energy Ministry announced tonight. From Saudi Arabia.
He clarified that groups of firefighters put out the fire and that there is no loss of life. He also assured that the Aramco deliveries would not be affected by this act of “terrorism and sabotage.”
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The facility is located north of Jeddah and close to King Abdulaziz International Airport. pic.twitter.com/fbrWOhIrNW
– IWN (@ A7_Mirza) November 23, 2020
Yahya Sharieh, a Houthi military spokesman, had said a few hours earlier that “a Quds-2 missile had hit its target with precision and ambulances and fire trucks were rushing toward the target,” a Saudi-based delivery facility near Saudi Arabia. Red Sea.
The TankerTrackers website, which monitors the movements of the tanker trucks, cited satellite images from Planet Labs showing an oil tank at the North Jeddah Bulk Plant that was “struck and (the fire) quickly extinguished.”
According to Sharia law, the attack was in retaliation for the “continued aggression and siege of the Yemeni population” by Saudi Arabia, which has led a military coalition since 2015 in support of the internationally recognized Yemeni government.
The coalition said in a statement released by Saudi news agency spa that the Houthi rebels “were involved in this cowardly terrorist attack, which is not targeting the kingdom’s national capabilities, but rather the sinew of the world economy and its supply, as well as global energy security.”
The rebels are intensifying attacks against neighboring Saudi Arabia, mainly in the southern provinces along the border with Yemen. But Jeddah is about 600 miles from there.
Aramco has already been the target of several attacks, most notably in September 2019, which momentarily cut the kingdom’s oil production in half.
the Χούθι claimed responsibility for these attacks, but United States blamed Iran. THE Tehran denied it.
Sharie also warned foreign companies operating in Saudi Arabia, urging them to “avoid critical facilities” that could be targeted.
The attack came a day after a two-day G20 summit hosted online in Riyadh on the coronavirus pandemic and shortly after the departure of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who visited NEOM (Northwest) on Sunday. , a growing futuristic large city in the kingdom.
The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has expressed concern about a statement by the UN envoy after the attack on a civilian area, which violates international law.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
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