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The Yemeni army said it launched a drone attack on Jizan airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia early on Wednesday, part of an escalation of cross-border assaults in the 4-year-old conflict, Reuters reports.
The Saudi-led coalition attacking Yemen said it had intercepted and downed a Houthi drone heading towards civilian targets in Jizan.
The spokesperson of the army Yahya Saree said the attack disrupted operations at the airport.
The Houthis, backing the Yemeni army, have in the past few months stepped up their retaliatory attacks against targets in Saudi Arabia.
On Tuesday, the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and downed three Houthi drones launched towards the southwestern Saudi cities of Jizan and Abha near the Yemeni border.
Saree said that Tuesday’s drone attack had targeted the King Khalid air base near the southwestern Saudi city of Khamis Mushait.
The escalation in violence threatens a UN-sponsored deal for a ceasefire and troop withdrawal from the flashpoint coastal city of Hodeida, which became the focus of the war last year when the coalition tried to seize its port, the main supply line and a lifeline for millions of Yemenis.
On Monday the United Nations said the warring parties had agreed new measures to enforce the ceasefire and facilitate a troop pullback from Hodeida.
The Western-backed coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE launched a military campaign in Yemen in 2015 to forcefully restore the regime of former President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi which resigned in 2014.
The war has killed tens of thousands of people and left millions on the brink of famine.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
