The Coalition: The “terrorist” attack on a fuel tank for an oil station in Jeddah targets global energy security

The spokesman for the coalition forces "Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen", Brigadier General Turki Al-Maliki, stated that with reference to the statement issued by the Ministry of Energy about a fire in a fuel tank at the petroleum products distribution station in Jeddah, the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia has been implicated in this. The cowardly terrorist attack, which does not target the national capabilities of the Kingdom, but rather targets the nerve of the global economy and its supplies as well as global energy security.

Brigadier General Al-Maliki clarified that this terrorist attack is an extension of terrorist acts targeting oil facilities in (Abqaiq and Khurais), which were adopted by the Houthi militia, and evidence and proofs have proven the Iranian regime's involvement in those terrorist attacks using Iranian specific weapons (cruise and explosive drones).


Brigadier General Al-Maliki stated that targeting civilians and civilian objects, including economic facilities, in a systematic and deliberate manner, violates international humanitarian law and its customary rules and amounts to war crimes.

Brigadier General Al-Maliki affirmed that the Joint Forces Command of the Coalition is taking the necessary operational measures to protect civilians and civilian objects, and terrorist elements planned and executed for these hostile and terrorist operations against civilians and civilian objects will be held accountable in accordance with international humanitarian law and its customary rules.

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