“We are prepared to respond to escalation with escalation,” Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree warned in a televised statement, the AFP news agency reported.
The rebels claimed they could attack the UAE’s military and economic institutions if they continued their “interference” in Yemen.
“Designating (the Houthis) as a terrorist organization has no value and will never affect the course of the battle,” Mohammed Abdelsalam, another spokesman for the rebels, said in an interview with his channel, Al Masirah, the French agency quoted.
After the attack, in the middle of the night, the Saudi Arabian authorities announced that two people had been injured by a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis against the city of Jazán, in the south of the country, while another ballistic missile fired towards the southern Dhahran Al Janub had been intercepted.
In response, the Saudi-led military coalition announced that it had destroyed a “ballistic missile launch pad in the Al Jawf region” of northern Yemen.
Later, the Emirati Ministry of Defense reported that it had intercepted the missiles that the Yemeni rebels had fired at the UAE and that the country was taking “all measures to protect the country from any attack”.
“The United Arab Emirates air defenses intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi terrorist group. The attack caused no casualties, and the remains of the destroyed missiles fell around Abu Dhabi,” the agency said in a statement.
The new attacks against the UAE and Saudi Arabia come after a bombing later attributed to the military coalition against a rebel-controlled prison in northern Yemen, which left at least 70 dead, took place last Friday.
Prior to this, on January 17, the Yemeni rebels claimed responsibility for a drone and missile attack on oil facilities and the Abu Dhabi airport, in which three people were killed.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are part of a coalition that has intervened in war-torn Yemen since 2015 to provide military support to the government against Houthi rebels.
This armed group controls most of northern Yemen and the capital, Sanaa, and receives aid from Iran, great regional rival of Saudi Arabia.
According to the United Nations Organization, the conflict left 377,000 dead and brought a population of 30 million people to the brink of famine.
Source From: Ambito
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