{"id":39950,"date":"2019-07-02T02:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T02:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39950"},"modified":"2019-07-02T02:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T02:22:37","slug":"yemens-houthis-attack-saudis-abha-airport-injuring-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39950","title":{"rendered":"Yemen’s Houthis attack Saudi’s Abha airport, injuring civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A\u00a0Yemeni<\/a>\u00a0rebel attack on a civilian airport in southern\u00a0Saudi Arabia<\/a> wounded nine civilians on Tuesday, a Riyadh-led coalition said, the latest in a series of strikes on the airport.<\/p>\n

“The terrorist attack on Abha airport … led to the injury of nine civilians, including eight Saudi citizens and one carrying an Indian passport,” the military coalition said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the Iran<\/a>-aligned Houthi<\/a> rebels said they “launched a wide operation targeting warplanes at Abha international airport” with drones, according to their Almasirah television channel.<\/p>\n

Abha airport has come under repeated missile and drone attacks in the past several weeks. On June 12, a rebel missile attack on Abha airport wounded 26 civilians, drawing promises of “stern action” from the Saudi-Emirati coalition.<\/p>\n

And on June 23, another rebel attack on Abha airport killed a Syrian national and wounded 21 other civilians, according to the coalition.<\/p>\n

Stepped up attacks<\/h2>\n

The Houthis have stepped up attacks in recent weeks against Saudi Arabia, which has been running a bloody military campaign in the Middle East\u2019s poorest country since 2015.<\/p>\n

The Houthi rebels took control of vast swathes of the country, including the capital Sanaa, in late 2014, forcing the internationally recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi from power.<\/p>\n

The raids come amid heightened regional tensions after Washington – a key ally of Riyadh – accused Iran of shooting down a US drone over international waters and of carrying out attacks on oil tankers in the strategic Gulf of Oman.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia has repeatedly accused Iran of supplying sophisticated weapons to Houthi rebels, a charge Tehran denies.<\/p>\n

Following recent attacks, Saudi state media have reported an intensification of coalition air raids on rebel positions in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah and the Houthi-held capital Sanaa.<\/p>\n

The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people, many of them civilians, relief agencies say.<\/p>\n

The fighting has triggered what the United Nations describes <\/a>as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with millions of people displaced and in need of aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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