Houthi attack on Aramco and other vital facilities in Saudi Arabia

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The Ansar Allah Houthi movement in Yemen announced that it had targeted, on Friday, Aramco’s facilities in Jeddah and vital facilities in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, with a batch of winged missiles and drones.

The movement said that it bombed vital and important targets in the areas of Jizan, Dhahran al-Janoub, Abha and Khamis Mushait with large numbers of ballistic missiles.

Al-Masirah TV, affiliated with the Houthis, quoted the movement as saying that its armed forces carried out the “third operation to break the siege” in the Saudi depth with large numbers of ballistic and winged missiles and drones.

For its part, the Saudi-led Arab coalition confirmed the targeting of the Aramco plant in Jeddah and the Samtah power plant with missiles launched from the Yemeni city of Hodeidah.

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