Yemeni armed forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, launched new drone and missile retaliatory attacks against Saudi targets, including one on a facility run by oil company Aramco in the strategic Jizan region.
The attack was in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s ongoing military aggression and all-out blockade against Yemen.
Early on Sunday, the Saudi Press Agency reported that attacks targeted a water desalination plant in al-Shaqeeq, an Aramco facility in Jizan, a power station in the southern Dhahran al-Janub city, and a gas facility in Khamis Mushait, citing a statement from the Saudi-led coalition. It stated that no one had died.
The Saudi-led coalition later claimed it intercepted and destroyed three drones that hit the economic sites, according to the state-run al-Ekhbariya television news network.
The television channel also reported that the coalition allegedly averted an attack on an Aramco Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility in the Saudi city of Yanbu.
Saudi Arabia has launched a new wave of airstrikes in Yemen, targeting multiple places.
According to the Arabic-language al-Masirah news network, Saudi jets carried out four air assaults against the Rahabah district in Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib on Saturday evening.
In the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah, three aerial assaults targeted the Abs area, while another targeted the Harad district. There were no reports of injuries or the scope of the damage right away.
Two civilians also lost their lives when Saudi artillery units pounded a residential area in the Shada’a district of Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada.
Meanwhile, the Saudi-led military coalition’s soldiers and their mercenaries have breached a truce deal for the western coastal province of Hudaydah 132 times in the last 24 hours.
Citing an unnamed source in Yemen’s Liaison and Coordination Officers Operations Room, al-Masirah TV reported that the violations included reconnaissance flights over various districts, 31 counts of artillery shelling and 92 shooting incidents.
Saudi Arabia launched the devastating war against Yemen in March 2015 in collaboration with a number of its allies and with arms and logistics support from the US and several Western states.
The objective was to bring back to power the former Riyadh-backed regime and crush the popular Ansarullah resistance movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of an effective government in Yemen.
The war has stopped well short of all of its goals, despite killing hundreds of thousands of Yemenis and turning the entire country into the scene of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
