Missiles were " intercepted and destroyed " in the skies of Ryad and a city near Yemen from Saturday to Sunday, according to the Saudi-led military coalition, which has been at war with the Yemeni rebels for five years Houthis.
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" The Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi terrorist militia ," said coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki, quoted by the Saudi official agency SPA. The attack has not yet been claimed.
The two missiles, launched towards Ryad and the southern city of Jazan, in the south-west of the country close to the border with Yemen, " did not make any death, " added Turki al-Maliki. " Fragments fell on several residential areas, slightly injuring two civilians, " said the Saudi Civil Defense on Twitter.
The Yemeni government "strongly condemned " the attack. " The continuation of such actions by militias supported by Iran [...] shows that they do not want peace, " lambasted the Foreign Ministry on Twitter.
The thwarted attack comes soon after the coalition-backed Yemeni government, on the one hand, and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, on the other, welcomed the UN's call for a " ceasefire. " "immediate and global fire " in the face of the threat of the new coronavirus. She also intervenes at the time of the fifth anniversary of the intervention of the coalition in the conflict in Yemen to counter the Houthis, a group of insurgents from the north of the country who captured vast swathes of the territory, including the capital Sanaa in 2014.
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