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The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Turki Al-Maliki, announced that his forces intercepted and destroyed, on Thursday night, a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis towards the city of Najran, in the south of the Kingdom, as quoted by the official Saudi news agency (SPA).
A few days ago, the coalition announced that it had intercepted another missile fired by the Houthis towards the area near the border with Yemen.
Yemen has witnessed an armed struggle for power since 2014, when Houthi rebels seized control of the capital, Sanaa, and left for other regions.
The fighting escalated in March 2015, when the coalition intervened to restore the rule of Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and halt the advance of the Houthis.
Thousands of civilians have died in Yemen since the start of the military conflict, while its health sector has collapsed, amid severe medicine shortages and the spread of diseases such as cholera, at a time when millions of people they live on the brink of starvation due to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations.
The suffering is aggravated by the Covid-19 epidemic, which has caused, since the beginning of May, the death of more than 300 people, according to official statistics, but the number of victims may be much higher, given the incapacity of the institutions to determine the causes of death in many cases.
