Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels say they fired a ballistic missile at Saudi Arabia and hit a military target, in the second such attack this month, after threatening to retaliate over a crippling blockade.
“We confirm the success of our ballistic missile trial, which hit its military target inside Saudi Arabia,” the Houthi-run Al-Masira television channel says.
Earlier, rebel chief Abdulmalik al-Houthi warned against “prolonging the blockade” imposed on Yemen following a November 4 Houthi missile attack that was intercepted near Riyadh international airport.
“Should the blockade continue, we know what (targets) would cause great pain and how to reach them,” he says in a speech broadcast on Al-Masira television.
Yemen’s war has claimed more than 8,600 lives since the Saudi-led coalition joined the government’s war against the Houthi rebel alliance.
— AFP
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