Rabat – Yemen has joined the growing uproar condemning Houthi attacks on Aden International Airport and Saudi Arabia early on Wednesday.
No casualties were reported following the Houthi ballistic missile attack on the airport.
The Yemeni government also condemned the attacks on Saudi facilities and those targeting the cities of Mecca and Medina.
The Yemeni Foreign Affairs Ministry decried the attacks, stating the assaults threaten the safety of civilians and civil aviation.
Earlier today, the official spokesperson of the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, Major General Turki Al-Malki, announced that another ballistic missile launched by Houthis was intercepted and destroyed north of Riyadh.
He said the coalition is tracking the launch platform over Sana’a using its intelligence systems and will destroy it.
The situation comes amid ongoing escalation and Houthi attacks on Saudi facilities.
The Houthis have been flaring up dramatically in recent months following clashes over airport strikes and regional spillover from the wider Middle East conflict.
The Iranian-backed groups are now increasingly turning to targeting Saudi infrastructure, including military bases, oil and energy facilities, to pressure Riyadh into lifting its blockades.
Many countries continue to back Saudi Arabia against the attacks.
Earlier today, the UAE Foreign Ministry also condemned the Houthis’ continued targeting of civilian and economic facilities in Saudi Arabia, as well as Saudi vessels in the southern Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait, affirming that this continued targeting “constitutes a flagrant violation of” Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty and a threat to its security and stability.
In September, Morocco also renewed concerns over Houthi’s continued attacks targeting facilities and civilians, including attempts to target holy places, including Mecca and Medina.
King Mohammed VI, in letters to the Saudi royal family, said these “despicable attacks and desperate attempts to undermine the security, stability and property of the proud Saudi people do not represent only an attack on brotherly Saudi Arabia, its people and those performing Umrah there.”
The monarch said the attacks are a “blatant attack on the feelings of more than one billion and 800 million Muslims across the world.”
He also renewed solidarity with Saudi Arabia, expressing condemnation of what he described as “criminal acts,” holding the Houthi militias and those supporting, financing and arming them responsible.
Those responsible should be held accountable “before God, before history and before international law,” said the Moroccan monarch, adding that international sanctions should follow.
In a statement on Tuesday, Syria also strongly condemned Houthi militias’ previous attacks on facilities and the airport, which resulted in injuries and material damage
“In a statement on Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates affirmed Syria’s full solidarity with Saudi Arabia and its support for the Kingdom in confronting anything that threatens its security, territorial integrity, and civilian facilities, while wishing those injured a speedy recovery,” the Syrian news agency Sana reports.
