The Houthi group announced that it carried out two attacks on Abha airport in Saudi Arabia by drones, while the Saudi-UAE military coalition announced that it had killed Ibrahim Badr al-Din al-Houthi, the brother of the group's leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sari said in a statement carried by the group's march channel that the air force carried out two attacks on Abha International Airport with a number of aircraft "Qasef 2" (2k).
He added that the first operation targeted the gas station at the airport and hit its target with high accuracy, while the second operation targeted the control tower in the airport, and caused disruption of air navigation at the airport, he said.
The killing of Ibrahim Houthi
Meanwhile, the Saudi-UAE alliance in Yemen claimed responsibility on Friday for the killing of Ibrahim al-Houthi, the brother of the leader of the Houthi group.
Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki told Saudi media that any details of the killing of Ibrahim al-Houthi might not be appropriate now for information security, but some details would be announced later.
Earlier on Friday, a well-informed Yemeni source told Anatolia that the brother of Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi was assassinated inside his house in Hadda, south of the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
The Interior Ministry in the Houthi government, in a statement that Ibrahim Badr al-Din al-Houthi assassinated "the hands of treachery and betrayal of the US-Israeli aggression and its tools," referring to the Arab coalition.
It stressed in its statement that it "will not hesitate to prosecute and seize the tools of criminal aggression, which carried out the crime of assassination, and bring them to justice so that they receive their deterrent punishment."
The statement did not give further details about the assassination, or the position held by Ibrahim al-Houthi.