Saturday, 01 May 2021_Saudi Arabia says the kingdom’s air defense units have “intercepted and destroyed” an unspecified “hostile air target” aimed at the strategic Red Sea port city of Jeddah.
The kingdom’s Defense Ministry did not provide further information nor did it say who could have been behind the attack which took place early on Saturday.
The development comes as Yemeni army forces and fighters from allied Popular Committees have in the past launched missile and drone strikes against Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s devastating war and crippling blockade against their crisis-stricken Arab country.
On Wednesday, Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced in a post published on his Twitter page that the Yemeni army forces and their allies had struck designated targets inside King Khalid Air Base near the Saudi city of Khamis Mushait, located some 884 kilometers south of the capital Riyadh, using a domestically-manufactured Qasef-2K (Striker-2K) combat drone.
The attack, he said, was a “legitimate response” to the kingdom’s bloody war as well as tight all-out blockade on Yemen.
Saudis violate Yemen's Hudaydah truce 210 times in 24 hours
Furthermore, forces of the Saudi-led military coalition and their mercenaries have violated 210 times during the past 24 hours a ceasefire agreement between warring sides for the western coastal province of Hudaydah.
Yemen’s al-Masirah television network, citing an unnamed source in Yemen’s Liaison and Coordination Officers Operations Room, reported that the violations included 15 reconnaissance flights over various regions, including Kilo 16 and al-Faza neighborhoods as well as Hays, al-Durayhimi and al-Tuhayat districts, in addition to 40 counts of artillery shelling and 153 shooting incidents.
Delegates from the Ansarullah movement and representatives loyal to former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi attended the peace negotiations in Rimbo on the outskirts of Stockholm in December 2018. The talks resulted in the announcement of a breakthrough agreement.
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