Arab Coalition: Houthi Ballistic Missile Crashes in Yemen
The Saudi-led Arab coalition announced on Wednesday
that the Iran-backed Houthi militias fired a ballistic missile that later
crashed in Yemen.
Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Maliki said the
militias fired the rocket from residential areas in the in Shar district in the
Saada province.
The projectile crashed in al-Safraa region, also in
Saada, he added.
Maliki accused the Houthis of persistently violating
international humanitarian law by firing ballistic missiles that crash
arbitrarily in residential areas, threatening the lives of innocent lives in
Yemen.
The coalition will continue to take firm deterrent
measures to neutralize and destroy the Houthis’ ballistic capabilities to
protect the Yemeni people and regional and international security, he vowed.
