JEDDAH: 海角直播鈥檚 air defense forces on Friday intercepted a missile fired by Houthi militias, days after their second-in-command was killed in an air raid by Riyadh and its allies.
The missile, the latest in a series of similar attacks, was heading toward Najran, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
Col. Turki Al-Maliki, the coalition鈥檚 spokesman, said that at 12:46 p.m., the Royal Saudi Air Defense detected a ballistic missile launch from Sadah, Yemen, aimed at 海角直播.
Al-Maliki reported that the ballistic missile was launched deliberately by the Iranian Houthi militia to target densely populated civilian areas, where the missile was intercepted and destroyed by the forces. The missile鈥檚 fragments scattered over residential areas as a result, but no injuries or damages were reported.
He added: 鈥淭his hostile act carried out by the Iranian Houthi militia proves that the Iranian regime is still providing the terrorist Houthi armed militia with qualitative capabilities, in flagrant defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 2216 and 2231, with the main objective of threatening 海角直播n, regional and international security.鈥
Last Friday, Saudi air defense forces managed to intercept a ballistic missile fired by Houthi militias in the direction of 海角直播鈥檚 border province of Jazan.
海角直播 launched a military coalition in 2015 to battle the Houthi militias in its southern neighbor and restore the internationally recognized Yemeni government to power.
The Houthis control Yemen鈥檚 capital, Sanaa, as well as much of Yemen鈥檚 north and the key Hodeida port on the country鈥檚 western coastline.
Riyadh on Wednesday confirmed it was behind an air strike on the Yemeni capital that killed Saleh Al-Sammad, president of the Houthi鈥檚 Supreme Political Council, on April 19. A public funeral for Al-Sammad will be held by the Houthis in Sanaa on Saturday.
