With ballistic missiles .. Houthis bomb the Saudi airport of Najran

Ansar Allah (Houthi) group announced Tuesday the launch of a ballistic missile attack on military targets at Najran International Airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, at a time when the Saudi-UAE coalition intercepted and shot down a drone fired by the Houthis from the Yemeni province of Amran towards the Kingdom.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sari said in a press statement that their missile force fired a BADR-1 ballistic missile at military targets at Najran Regional Airport and other military targets.

The Houthis say the Badr-1 missiles are a local industry, and one of the most accurate missiles the Yemeni group is capable of.

He added that the injury was direct, and the operation caused the disruption of air navigation at the airport.

He said that this response was a response to the "crimes of aggression" (the Saudi-UAE coalition) and its continued siege on the great Yemeni people and their continuous raids, which amounted during the past hours 52 air strikes.

He said that the targeting process is in line with international humanitarian law and its customary rules. "We have taken all necessary and preventive measures to protect civilians," he said.

The Houthis have recently announced that they are targeting facilities in Saudi Arabia, including airports and oil facilities in the Kingdom by drones, while the coalition declares that many of these attacks are defeated and thwarted.

Smooth projection
On the other hand, the Saudi-UAE coalition announced on Tuesday interception and shooting down a drone fired by the Houthis from the Yemeni province of Amran towards the Kingdom.

A spokesman for the coalition forces, Turki al-Maliki, said in a statement reported by the Saudi Press Agency that he was intercepted and shot down a drone (drone) fired by the Houthis from Amran north of the capital Sanaa, towards the Kingdom.

He explained that the coalition takes all operational procedures and the best means, to deal with these aircraft to protect civilians and civilian objects (areas).

Al-Maliki said that what he described as the recent repeated terrorist attempts by the Houthi terrorist militia as a result of the great losses in the ranks of its terrorist elements, equipment and equipment.

For the fifth year in a row, Yemen has been locked in a war between pro-government forces and al-Houthi gunmen accused of receiving Iranian support and in control of provinces including Sanaa since September 2014.

Since March 2015, the Saudi-UAE coalition has been waging a war in Yemen to counter the Houthis, and fighting has killed 70,000 people since the beginning of 2016, according to UN estimates in mid-June.