Houthi attacks against Saudi facilities… and Riyadh warns that production commitments to world markets will be affected

The Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen stressed its exercise of restraint for the sake of Yemen and the Yemenis in order to make the Yemeni-Yemeni consultations that will be held under the auspices of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh on the twenty-ninth of March this year, despite the Houthi militias carrying out a series of terrorist attacks, including an operation targeting a distribution station. of Aramco’s petroleum products in Jeddah. The number of attacks reached 16, in which the militias used drones, ballistic missiles and military projectiles.

Fragments of intercepting Houthi missiles and marches, which fell in some residential neighborhoods, were scattered without any casualties.

The coalition warned the Houthi group not to persist in its grave violations, and not to test the coalition’s patience, stressing its support for the Gulf and international position for the success of the Yemeni consultations that the Houthis are seeking to thwart.

The coalition revealed that yesterday’s hostile attacks were launched from Sana’a International Airport and Hodeidah Governorate, noting that it monitored suspicious activities to launch a wave of hostile attacks towards the Kingdom, indicating that it had evaluated the threats and repercussions, and stressed that its measures take into account regional and collective security.

Brigadier Turki Al-Maliki, the official spokesman for the coalition, indicated that the petroleum products distribution station of Aramco in Jeddah, at 5:25 p.m. (local time), was subjected to a “hostile act.” He also talked about the outbreak of a fire in two tanks belonging to the oil facility, and the fire was brought under control without any injuries or casualties.

Al-Maliki added that this hostile escalation targets the oil facilities and focuses on trying to influence energy security and the backbone of the global economy, and there is no effect or repercussions for these hostile attacks on the activities of public life in the city of Jeddah.

Meanwhile, an official source at the Saudi Ministry of Energy stated that the petroleum products distribution station in north Jeddah was attacked with a missile projectile, and the “Al-Mukhtara” station in the Jazan region, also at five o’clock yesterday evening, was attacked with a missile projectile, and these attacks did not result in Criminal injuries or deaths.

The source expressed the Kingdom’s strong condemnation of these sabotage attacks, “whose repeated perpetration against vital installations and civilian objects, in different regions of the Kingdom, constitutes a violation of all international laws and norms,” ​​stressing what Saudi Arabia had previously announced that it would not bear responsibility for any shortage of supplies. oil to global markets, in light of the continuous sabotage attacks on its petroleum facilities by the Houthi militia.

The source stressed that the Kingdom stresses the importance of the international community being aware of the danger of Iran’s continuing to provide the terrorist Houthi militias with ballistic missile technologies and advanced unmanned aircraft, with which they target oil and gas production sites and their derivatives in the Kingdom, indicating the serious effects of the production, processing and refining sectors. Which will lead to an impact on the Kingdom’s production capacity and its ability to fulfill its obligations to global markets, which undoubtedly threatens the security and stability of energy supplies to global markets.

The source stressed that it has become clear that these terrorist sabotage attacks, and those behind them, do not target the Kingdom alone, but also aim to destabilize the security and stability of energy supplies in the world, and thus negatively affect the global economy, especially in these extremely sensitive circumstances witnessed by the world and witnessed by markets. Global Energy, calling on the countries and organizations of the world to stand against these attacks, and to confront all parties that implement or support them.

The Saudi defense destroyed 9 booby-trapped drones launched towards the Kingdom. The coalition indicated that hostile attempts deliberately targeted civilian objects and energy facilities, noting that the continuation of Houthi hostilities threatens regional and international security.

The coalition affirmed its support for the Gulf and international position for the success of the Yemeni consultations amid the Houthis’ efforts to thwart them, pointing to the thwarting of all hostile attempts to target the southern, central and eastern regions, stressing that the Houthi hostile attempts are a dangerous escalation targeting energy security and the backbone of the global economy.

Later, the Saudi defenses destroyed a ballistic missile that was launched towards the city of Jazan, and 3 booby-trapped marches were also destroyed, which were launched towards the city of Najran.

The coalition also announced a hostile targeting of the tanks of the National Water Company in Dhahran Al-Janoub Governorate in the Asir region (southern Saudi Arabia), which resulted in material damage to some civilian vehicles and residential homes as a result of the attacks.

Meanwhile, the coalition announced that a hostile projectile had fallen on an electricity distribution station in the Samtah governorate in the Jazan region, resulting in a limited fire at the station without causing any casualties. The coalition stressed the exercise of self-restraint, while preserving the right to respond in a timely manner.

The terrorist Houthi militia continues its attempts to target civilians and civilian and economic objects in the Kingdom, in attempts that provoked condemnations from Gulf, Arab, Islamic and Western countries, stressing their standing by the Kingdom and its full solidarity with it in all the measures it takes to maintain its security and stability against these deliberate and systematic attacks that contradict with International humanitarian law. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the Houthi attack on important sites in Saudi Arabia, “including Jeddah,” and said in a tweet on his account on the social networking site “Twitter”: “These strikes endanger civilian lives and must stop.”

“Reuters” quoted Alina Porter, deputy spokesman for the US State Department, yesterday (Friday), as saying that Washington condemns the attacks of the Yemeni Houthi group on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, and considers them “unacceptable”.

Kuwait expressed its condemnation and denunciation in the strongest terms of the cowardly terrorist act represented by the Houthi militia launching a number of drones and booby-trapped aircraft towards the southern, central and eastern regions of the Kingdom.

The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry said in a statement yesterday that this cowardly terrorist operation targets not only civilians, civilian areas, the security of the Kingdom and the stability of the region, but also the sources of global energy supplies at a time when the world is seeking to support the stability of these supplies and ensure their flow, which requires the international community to move quickly. And firm to curb those attacks and hold the perpetrators accountable.

Bahrain strongly condemned and denounced the launch by the terrorist Houthi militia of a number of drones and booby-trapped aircraft towards the Kingdom, in an act it said was a cowardly terrorist act targeting the lives of civilians, civilian objects and energy sources in the Kingdom.

In a statement, the Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that it commends the readiness and vigilance of the Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces and the Coalition Forces to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, which were able to intercept and destroy the drones. These deliberate and systematic attacks are inconsistent with international humanitarian law.

Yesterday, the Jordanian government condemned the continuous attacks of the Houthi militia on the territory of the Kingdom, the latest of which was the launch of a ballistic missile and booby-trapped drones at civilian buildings and energy facilities located in several regions, which were intercepted and destroyed by the Saudi air defenses.

Ambassador Haitham Abu Al-Ful, the official spokesman for the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, affirmed Jordan’s strong condemnation and denunciation of these cowardly terrorist attacks, stressing his country’s solidarity and its absolute support for the Kingdom in the face of all that threatens its security and the security of its people.

Meanwhile, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the continuous hostilities perpetrated yesterday by the Houthi militia with missiles and marches, in a dangerous escalation, targeting civilian objects and vital economic facilities in the Kingdom.

Hussein Ibrahim Taha, Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, condemned, in the strongest terms, the Houthi militia’s persistence in its criminal hostile practices, at a time when unremitting efforts are being made to gather the Yemeni brothers for dialogue in order to advance the peace process and spare Yemeni blood.

The Secretary-General reiterated that the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which commends the restraint shown by the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen in order to make the consultations between Yemenis successful, stands by Saudi Arabia and supports all measures it takes to protect its lands, citizens, residents and economic facilities.

The Gulf Cooperation Council also condemned in the strongest terms the Houthi militia’s continued systematic and deliberate launching of booby-trapped marches towards the southern region, targeting safe civilians and civilian facilities.

Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf, Secretary-General of the Council, stressed that the continuation of attacks and targeting of civilian facilities and power stations constitutes a threat to security and stability, and harms the global economy and energy supplies, which requires the international community to take a firm stand against these attacks and the violations they represent in international law.

The Secretary-General praised the high efficiency and constant vigilance of the Saudi air defense forces, which were able to intercept and destroy 9 marches, stressing the solidarity of the GCC countries with the Kingdom against everything that targets its security, stability and territorial integrity.