The Saudi-Emirati coalition announced the removal and destruction of sea mines planted by the Houthi group in the southern Red Sea.
The coalition warned that Houthi activities, with Iranian support, threaten maritime security in the Bab al-Mandab strait and the southern Red Sea.
This comes after Riyadh played down the importance of a missile fired by the Houthis on Monday at a station for the distribution of petroleum products north of Jeddah.
According to Saudi TV, the Saudi-led coalition said it had destroyed Iranian-made naval mines planted by the Houthis in the Red Sea, bringing the number of mines destroyed so far to 163.
On the other hand, Abdullah Al-Ghamdi, director of the Aramco facility that was bombed, said that one of the 13 tankers in the Al-Saayeb station in the facility stopped working due to the missile that hit it yesterday.
Al-Ghamdi added to reporters during an inspection tour that the missile hit the storage tank from the top, causing "severe damage" to the tank ceiling and creating a gap of about two meters wide.
The Aramco official confirmed that the facility distributes more than 120,000 barrels of petroleum products per day in Jeddah, Makkah and Al-Baha region, and that customers were not affected by the accident.
He also explained that the fire caused by the attack could be extinguished in about 40 minutes, without anyone being injured.
"It was a huge fire and a strong explosion, but the matter was dealt with quickly," he added.
Yesterday's attack came less than two weeks after a fire broke out near a floating platform of the petroleum products terminal in Jizan, and it was contained without any casualties, and the fire resulted from an attempted Houthi attack in which the coalition intercepted and destroyed two boats loaded with explosives in the southern Red Sea.
Yesterday, the Houthi military spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced the targeting of an Aramco distribution station in Jeddah.
With the help and support of God, the missile force was able to target the Aramco distribution station in Jeddah with a winged missile, Quds 2, which recently entered service after successful operational tests in the Saudi rear, which have not been announced yet, and
thanks to God, the injury was very accurate and ambulances and firefighting vehicles rushed to the target location.
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- Brigadier General Yahya Saree (@ army21ye) November 23, 2020
He added that the attack was carried out with a winged (cruise) missile, "Quds 2", and that the injury was accurate.
Saree called on foreign companies and their workers to stay away from vital places.
He pointed out that the targeting of Aramco in Jeddah came in response to what he called the continuation of the siege and aggression in Yemen, and in the context of what the Houthis promised days before the implementation of large-scale operations in the Saudi depth.