Debris from the missiles fell on a home in Riyadh, killing an Egyptian resident and wounding two other Egyptians.
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British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Secretary of State for International Development Penny Mordaunt affirmed Saudi Arabia’s right to defend itself against security threats, including missiles fired from Yemen.
Two missiles were also intercepted by Saudi Arabia which attacked its capital between November to December previous year.
Al-Maliki added Houthi rebels have fired 104 ballistic missiles towards Saudi Arabia and Iran exploits the Al-Hudaydah Port in Yemen to smuggle ballistic weapons to the Houthis.
“We praise the successful advance of military capabilities”, Houthi political council chief Saleh al-Samad told a crowd of tens of thousands of supporters in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
The coalition has announced a total provision of $1.5 billion to support the United Nations YHRP, which is equivalent to more than half of the needs of the response plan.
The Guardian reported that other missiles were fired at “the southern cities of Najran, Jizan and Khamis Mushait, the coalition said in a statement carried [out] by state news agency SPA”.
Saudi rulers were expected at least to learn their lesson from the military aggression against the Yemeni people and give up their “delusion of grandiosity” and also to realize that they “cannot generate power and security by relying on arms purchases and costly and imported security”, he pointed out.
As police cars raced across the city, videos shared on social media showed a large missile fragment in the median of a highway, a fiery cascade of debris amid a flurry of Patriot missiles, and what appeared to be a misfire: a missile turning sharply, shortly after it was launched, and slamming into the ground.
The Emirates plays a major role in the coalition, which intervened militarily three years ago to support Yemen’s government against Huthi rebels.
Between November and December of previous year, the Saudis intercepted at least two missiles targeting its capital.
The recent attacks from Houthi rebels have increased in range over time, demonstrating their ability to reach Riyadh.
What is happening in Yemen?
Sunday’s attack highlights how the war in Yemen is increasingly spilling across the border since the Saudi-led coalition began its military intervention on March 26, 2015.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps a day later denied providing the weapons to the Huthis and accused the Saudis of blaming Iran in an effort to distract from what it said were “atrocities” committed by Riyadh in Yemen. The northern part of Yemen has been ruled by the Zaidis for over 1000 years, ever since 1962. Saudi officials claim the missiles came from Iran, and that they have a “right” to respond militarily against Iran in the future.
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He added, “This is a very, very hostile act”. “We have been extending our hand to Iran since 1979 in friendship, and what we get back is death and destruction”.
