The Houthi insurgency in Yemen has reported this Thursday a series of twelve offensives: six of them using ballistic missiles against Saudi troops deployed in Yemen and the other six, combining missiles and drones, against oil infrastructures, a military aircraft, and an air base on Saudi territory. These attacks occur amid a full intensification of the conflict between the rebels and the Saudi authorities, which back the Yemeni Government recognized by the international community.
The announcement has been circulated through several statements on social networks by the Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Sari, who has detailed first "six operations against concentrations of Saudi enemy troops under the command of the Saudi officer Badr al Harbi" located in Jaraz and Ras al Ara, in the Lahij governorate, in the southwest of Yemen. These actions, carried out with six ballistic missiles, would have caused, according to Sari, "tens of dead and wounded."
As for the attacks within Saudi Arabia, the Houthi military representative indicated that the rebel forces struck on two occasions pumping station number 7 of the East-West pipeline, located about 330 kilometers west of Riyadh: first with a drone and subsequently with a ballistic missile. The same type of projectile would have been used in another offensive against oil facilities in the port city of Yanbu, on the Red Sea coast. In addition, he noted that the Houthi forces carried out a drone operation against facilities of the oil company Aramco in the Saudi capital.
The spokesperson added two other attacks focused on the Saudi Air Force. The first would have targeted "a military cargo aircraft at the Sharura airport", in the south of the country and close to the border with Yemen, using a drone. The second would have been directed against the air base of Jamis Mushait, in the Saudi southwest, where Sari has asserted the "direct" impact of a ballistic missile.
For the time being, the Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia have not reported casualties among their personnel nor damage to their military infrastructures, and neither the Saudi Ministry of Energy nor the company Aramco have provided information about possible harm to their facilities. In contrast, the spokesperson for the coalition forces for Yemen, led by Riyadh, has stated on social media that Saudi air defenses have managed to intercept and destroy a Houthi drone over the capital region and two other unmanned devices in the eastern part of the country.