إضغط هنا لقراءة الخبر بالعربية
The Saudi-led Arab coalition forces tosupport the legitimacy in Yemen that it intercepted in Saturday evening two unmanned drones launched by the Houthis group (Ansar Allah) towards the south of Saudi Arabia as the Houthis that they targeted the airports of Abha and Jizan.
Coalition Forces spokesman Colonel Turki al-Maliki said in two statements the first drone was fired from Sana'a towards Jizan, while the second was fired at a residential area in Asir south of the Kingdom.
The Houthis group (Ansar Allah) announced on Saturday evening that they attacked military targets in the airports of Abha and Jizan with unmanned drones, which led to the disruption of air navigation in them.
The army spokesman of Houthis group said the air Force carried out attacks with drones, Qasif-2K, on Saudi Abha and Jizan Airports. The Spokesman stated that the operation in Saudi Jizan Airport targeted air traffic control for US-Saudi jet fighters.
The Houthis group (Ansar Allah) has intensified in recent weeks missile and drones attacks on Saudi cities in response to what it calls the aggression and the siege on Yemen
As the coalition threatened that it would respond harshly to those attacks that recently left civilian dead and dozens wounded at the airport Abha.
The coalition has already responded with a series of air raids on military sites in Sana'a and Saada.
Yemen has been devastated by a five-year armed conflict by the government backed by the coalition and the Iran-backed Houthis.
More than 11.000 civilians have been killed and tens of thousands of others injured in the war. Millions have been displaced and tens of thousands have fled outside the country.
The coalition has been responsible for the vast majority of civilian casualties, according to the UN and international human rights organisations.
The conflict has caused what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
More than 24 million people, more than 80% of the country's population, are in need some form of humanitarian or protection assistance, including 8.4 million people who don't know where their next meal will come from, according to the UN.
And there are nearly 2 million children suffering from acute malnutrition, the UN said.
