The military spokesman for the Houthis launched a large-scale offensive operation using drones on King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait, southern Saudi Arabia, as part of a series of attacks talked by the Houthis in recent days.
The spokesman said the latest attack targeted the military communications system and warplanes at the King Khalid base.
For his part, a spokesman for the Saudi-UAE alliance said early Tuesday that a drone fired by the Houthis from Sanaa was intercepted and shot down, noting that the plane was shot down in Yemeni airspace, while the Houthis did not announce any attack today.
The Houthis' announcement of the "enlarged" attack came hours after they announced a drone attack on a military target they described as important in Riyadh.
The group's spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sari said that "the piloted aircraft carried out a large-scale attack with a number of" Samad 3 "aircraft on an important military target in Riyadh, stressing that the injury was direct.
He added that this process comes within the framework of expanding the circle of targeting, in response to what he called "coalition aggression" on Yemen, reiterating the call "for civilians and companies to stay away from military and vital sites as they have become legitimate targets for us."
In response to the announcement, a spokesman for the Saudi-UAE alliance confirmed that the Houthis' account of the Riyadh attack yesterday was false and misleading.
In recent days, the Houthis have announced that they have targeted several locations in Saudi Arabia by drones, such as the southern airport of Abha, Jizan and border areas, most recently in Riyadh.
Since March 2015, a Saudi-led Arab military coalition has been supporting government forces against the Houthis, and fighting has killed 70,000 people since the beginning of 2016, according to UN estimates in mid-June.