Yemeni Forces Target Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah with Local Missile

The rocketry force launched the rocket toward King Abdulaziz International Airport, 19 kilometers north of the western Saudi port city of Jeddah, Yemeni al-Massirah TV reported.
 
A military source said the 12.5-meter-long missile had struck its target.
 
However, Saudi media claimed that the Yemeni forces fired the missile toward the holy city of Mecca, in a clear propaganda stunt aimed at misrepresenting the Yemeni forces, by claiming they attack the Muslim holy sites.
 
The Saudi media claimed that the kingdom’s missile systems intercepted and destroyed the solid propellant and Scud-type missile before it could cause any damage. They also said that the projectile was launched at 9 p.m. from Yemen’s Sa’ada.
 
Thursday was an eventful day in war-torn Yemen as the country’s army also targeted militiamen loyal to resigned President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi in the province of Jawf, killing scores of them.
 
In a separate incident, Yemeni forces struck al-Kars base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border of Jizan. An undisclosed number of Saudi soldiers were killed in the attack.
 
The latest developments comes as the Saudi-led aggression on Yemen as well as a crippling economic blockade continues to take its toll on the people of this country. News of a rocket reaching Jeddah is seen as a crucial step toward tilting the military balance with Yemeni fighters capable of hitting long distance targets with the Saudi regime.
 
Yemeni retaliation comes as no surprise, however, as a Saudi-led military campaign has been pounding Yemen since March 2015. Yet Yemeni resistance to Riyadh’s attempt to reinstate Hadi and undermine the Ansarullah movement has been blocking this agenda, despite the high cost of the war.