The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement: “Egypt condemns in the strongest terms the Houthi militia’s continuation of its despicable terrorist attacks towards Saudi Arabia, the latest of which was targeting a number of economic and civil facilities at dawn today, March 20, with drones and ballistic missiles, which caused material damage to some vital facilities in the Kingdom.” In addition, a number of homes and vehicles were damaged.
The statement stressed that “the targeting of these vital and civilian facilities in the sisterly Saudi Arabia is a grave escalation and a blatant targeting of the security and sovereignty of the Kingdom, and a direct threat to security and stability in the region, in addition to the flagrant violation of the principles and rules of international law by these despicable terrorist attacks.”
He stressed, “Egypt’s affirmation of the close link between the security and stability of the two brotherly countries, and Egypt’s solidarity and standing side by side with Saudi Arabia in the measures it is taking in the face of the continuation of these cowardly hostilities.”
The spokesperson for the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, Brigadier General Turki Al-Maliki, had stated that the terrorist Houthi militia escalated its hostile cross-border attacks on Saturday evening and Sunday dawn towards Saudi Arabia, to target civilian objects and economic facilities in a systematic and deliberate manner.
Al-Maliki explained that “the Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces and the Royal Saudi Air Force intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile that was launched to target the city of Jazan (southern of the Kingdom), as well as destroying and shooting down 9 booby-trapped drones that were launched towards Jazan, Khamis Mushait, Taif, Yanbu and Dhahran the South.”
Al-Maliki added in a statement published by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), that “the hostile attacks of the Houthi militia deliberately target civilian and economic objects protected under international humanitarian law and its customary rules, using ballistic missiles and drones.”
The spokesman continued, “Initial investigations also indicate that the militias used Iranian cruise missiles that targeted the al-Shaqiq salt water desalination plant and Aramco’s distribution station in Jizan.”
The targeted sites, according to Al-Maliki, also included the electricity transmission station in Dhahran Al-Janoub, the gas station of the National Gas and Industrialization Company in Khamis Mushait, and the liquefied gas plant of Saudi Aramco in Yanbu.
And Al-Maliki added: “These hostile attacks caused some material damage to facilities, civilian vehicles and residential homes as a result of targeting and the scattering of objection fragments, and there are no casualties until the issuance of this statement.”
The spokesman stated that “these barbaric attacks represent a dangerous escalation, and they also express the position of the terrorist Houthi militia towards the invitation submitted by the Secretary-General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf to host Yemeni-Yemeni consultations between all Yemeni parties, and confirms the militias’ approach that rejects all international efforts and initiatives, including the initiative.” Saudi Arabia, to end the Yemeni crisis and reach a comprehensive and sustainable political solution.
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