Saudi air defences destroy ballistic missile fired from Yemen

 

DUBAI (Reuters) - ‮Saudi air defences‬ ‮intercepted‬ and destroyed ‮a ballistic missile‬ fired by Yemen's Houthi movement over the southern city of Jazan, the Saudi-led coalition said on Monday.

 

Earlier, the Houthis said the group had fired a Badr-1 ballistic missile at Jazan's airport, without giving any further details.

 

The Houthis, an Iran-allied group that holds much of Yemen including the capital, Sanaa, have fired a series of missiles into the kingdom in recent months, part of a three-year-old conflict in Yemen widely seen as a proxy battle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

 

A U.S.-backed military alliance intervened in Yemen’s civil war in 2015 to fight against the Houthis on behalf of the government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour al-Hadi, who lives in exile in Riyadh. Iran and the Houthis dismiss Saudi accusations that Tehran arms the group.

 

Coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said Saudi air defence forces destroyed the missile over Jazan and accused the Houthis of targeting residential areas, according to a report from the official Saudi Press Agency.

 

The Houthis have fired a salvo of missiles at Saudi Arabia in recent months, including the capital, Riyadh, while the coalition launched thousands of air strikes against Houthi-held areas, killing hundreds of civilians at hospitals, schools and markets.

 

(Reporting by Nayera Abdullah; Writing by Aziz El Yaakoubi; Editing by Paul Tait)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-05-21

In the same time period the Saudi and its coalition forces have shelled, bombed and used missles against the "rebels" in Yemen killing and injuring innocent men, women and children.

 

What the hell do they expect the Houthis to do?

 

Give up and say kill us all?

 

Remember that The Houthis are FROM the Yemen themselves and it is THEIR country they are fighting for.

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

In the same time period the Saudi and its coalition forces have shelled, bombed and used missles against the "rebels" in Yemen killing and injuring innocent men, women and children.

 

What the hell do they expect the Houthis to do?

 

Give up and say kill us all?

 

Remember that The Houthis are FROM the Yemen themselves and it is THEIR country they are fighting for.

 

And there are other Yemenites fighting the Houthis. It's a civil war, and a proxy war.

On 5/21/2018 at 12:31 PM, webfact said:

Saudi air defences‬ ‮intercepted‬ and destroyed ‮a ballistic missile‬ fired by Yemen's Houthi movement over the southern city of Jazan, the Saudi-led coalition said on Monday.

Mods, can you translate this into English please. ?

This is 1 the US shouldn't touch. Let them figure it all out.