Saudi-Led Coalition in Yemen Destroys Missile Targeting Kingdom

Arab World

June 13th, 2:16pm

Asharq Al-Awsat

Saudi-Led Coalition in Yemen Destroys Missile Targeting Kingdom

The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen said on Saturday it had intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile targeting the Saudi Arabian border city of Najran. In a statement issued via the Saudi Arabian state news agency, the coalition said that the missile was fired from the Yemeni city of Saada, and some people were slightly injured by fragments of the weapon when it was destroyed. In the statement, official Spokesman of the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen Col Turki Al-Malki said: "The terrorist Houthi militia is continuing to deliberately and systematically target, with ballistic missiles and UAVs, civilians and civilian objects protected under the International Humanitarian Law. "The number of ballistic missiles launched by the terrorist Houthi militia toward the Kingdom has reached (312), all intercepted and destroyed." He further assured that the Joint Forces Command of the Coalition "will continue to apply and implement all decisive and rigorous measures to neutralize and destroy such capabilities to protect civilians from these terrorist acts and haphazard, villainous attempts in accordance with the customary International Humanitarian Law.” The Western-backed coalition intervened in Yemen in March 2015 to try to restore the internationally recognized government to power in Sanaa, after it was ousted from the capital by the Iran-backed Houthis in late 2014. The ensuing war has been in stalemate for years and United Nations-led peace efforts have stalled since late 2018.

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