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Houthis claim they targeted Saudi airbase with drone
Yemeni loyalists of the Houthi movement in Sana a, Yemen on 8 August 2020 [Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images] April 24, 2021 at 2:56 pm
Houthis in Yemen said that they targeted an airbase in southern Saudi Arabia with an explosive-laden drone,
Anadolu Agency reports. The UAV air force (of the group) managed to retarget the King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait area on Friday morning with a 2K Qasef drone, said Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesperson.
Saree said the drone hit an important position at the airbase, but did not specify further.
He added that this came in response to the continued aggression and blockade imposed on our country [Yemen].
April 23, 2021
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed to have fired bomb-laden drones on an oil facility and an air base in southern Saudi Arabia, the latest in a series of cross-border attacks targeting the kingdom.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea tweeted on Friday that the Iran-aligned group targeted “important and sensitive locations “ at the King Khalid Air Base in the southwestern Saudi city of Khamis Mushait, as well as an oil site owned by Saudi Aramco in the Red Sea city of Jizan.
The alleged attacks came in retaliation for “the aggression escalation and the ongoing blockade of Yemen,” Sarea said.
Houthi group says it targeted King Khalid Airbase Anadolu Agency staff | 22.04.2021
SANAA, Yemen
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said Thursday it had intercepted and destroyed an explosives-laden drone fired by Houthi rebels towards Saudi Arabia. An explosives-laden unmanned drone launched by the terrorist Houthi militia towards Khamis Mushait was intercepted and destroyed, the coalition said in a statement carried by official Saudi Al-Ikhbariya TV.
The coalition asserted that the militia s hostile attempts are systematic and deliberate to target civilians and civilian objects.
For his part, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said: The Air Force (of the group) carried out an attack operation against King Khalid Airbase in Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia, with a 2K Qasef drone.
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