Yemeni Attacks on Saudi Arabia Largest Ever: Spokesman
Brigadier General Yahya Saree said on Tuesday that the major operation dubbed “Balance of Deterrence 4” was successfully carried out, al-Manar TV reported.
“The Yemeni army carried out the largest attack ever on the Saudi capital,” he added.
Yemeni revolutionaries carried out large-scale attack deep in Saudi Arabia late Monday, hitting several targets across the Kingdom.
Al Masirah television announced the attack early Tuesday, with Saudi Press Agency claiming earlier on Monday night that Saudi air defenses intercepted at least four ballistic missiles launched by Houthi rebels at Riyadh, Najran and Jazan, and also destroyed eight explosives-laden drones.
Saree said that a large number of ballistic and winged missiles hit Saudi Defense Ministry, Intelligence Ministry, Salman airbase along with other military targets in Riyadh, Jizan and Najran.
Drones laden with explosives also took place in the operation, the spokesman announced, adding that the operation “comes in retaliation to Saudi-led aggression and blockade on Yemen.”
In a post on his Twitter account, Mohammed Abdulsalam, spokesman of the Houthi Ansarullah movement, warned the US-Saudi coalition to take the latest Yemeni operation seriously.
“Stopping the aggression and lifting the siege are a humanitarian and national goal for oppressed Yemeni people,” he wrote, echoing the Yemeni army spokesman.
The operation, he added, signals that the Yemeni army’s next moves will be “more severe.”
Earlier in the day, Saudi activists reported loud blasts north of the capital Riyadh.
The Saudi-led coalition has also claimed that the alliance “successfully intercepted and destroyed” a ballistic missile launched at Riyadh by the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which leads Yemen’s defense forces.
In a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki called the strike a “deliberate and systematic operation to target civilians and civilian objects."
A few hours earlier, Malki reported another attack by the Houthis targeting the southern parts of the kingdom, claiming the coalition had intercepted eight bomb-laden drones and three ballistic missiles.
