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UAE blocks missile attack as Yemen’s Houthis target region’s business hub
DUBAI, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates on Monday said it had foiled another Houthi missile attack following last week’s deadly assault on the Gulf state as the Iran-aligned group takes aim at the safe haven status of the region’s tourism and commercial hub.
Yemen’s Houthis, battling a Saudi-led coalition that includes the UAE, have said they aim to make Abu Dhabi pay a high price for backing militias that are blocking Houthi attempts to capture prized oil regions.
The Houthis have repeatedly carried out cross-border missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, and on Jan. 17 the group raised the stakes with an unprecedented assault on the UAE.
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The UAE defence ministry said it intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles on Monday with no casualties. It said remnants fell in separate areas around the capital Abu Dhabi and that it was taking protective measures against attacks.
The Houthi military spokesman said the group fired Zulfiqar ballistic missiles at al-Dhafra airbase in Abu Dhabi, which is used by the United States, alongside other “sensitive targets”. The group launched drones at Dubai, he added.
“We advise foreign companies and investors in the UAE to leave as it has become unsafe,” spokesman Yahya Sarea said, adding the group was ready to “meet escalation with escalation”.
The coalition has in the past week conducted deadly air strikes in Yemen it says are aimed at crippling the capabilities of the movement in a conflict that is largely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The U.S. embassy, in a rare security advisory for the UAE, on Monday urged its citizens to “maintain a high level of security awareness”. read more
Monday’s attack was the second on UAE soil since last week’s strike that hit a fuel depot in Abu Dhabi, killing three people, and causing a fire near its international airport.S8N2QO04R
James Swanston of Capital Economics said further attacks could unnerve tourists planning trips to the UAE, and that any major hit on the OPEC member state’s oil production facilities would pose a downside risk to GDP growth.
Remains of ballistic missile that was intercepted in an industrial area are seen, in south of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, January 24, 2022. Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS
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The UAE, a major international travel hub, had so far escaped violence that has engulfed other Middle East states.
The Dubai benchmark stock index was down 2%, while the Abu Dhabi stock index declined 0.3% as of trading on Monday. Higher oil prices were providing support to markets, analysts said.
“It’s pretty surprising (the attacks)…Overall I feel safe but I don’t know how it will escalate,” American medical student Talia Rivera, 19, told Reuters at an Abu Dhabi shopping centre.
Spanish tourist Arabela Fernandez Rabena, 30, said she did not plan to cut short her holiday in one of the few countries open during the pandemic. “I think the Emirates is very strong and defend the people that live here.”
The UAE, which has an advanced anti-missile interception system, on Monday published a video of what it described as an F-16 warplane destroying a Houthi missile launcher in Yemen.
The Houthis said Monday’s operation also struck Saudi Arabia, where state media said remnants from an intercepted missile caused damage in a southern industrial area.
On Sunday night, state media said a ballistic missile fell near another region in the south, injuring two foreigners and causing damage in an industrial area. read more
The United Nations, which along with the United States has struggled to engineer a ceasefire for Yemen, has called for maximum restraint by both sides.
Coalition air strikes on Yemen killed at least 60 people in Saada province on Friday, and about 20 people in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Tuesday.
The coalition intervened in March 2015 after the Houthis ousted the government from Sanaa. The group says it is fighting a corrupt system and foreign aggression.
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Additional reporting by Lilian Wagdy, Lisa Barrington and Saeed Azhar; Writing by Ghaida Ghantous; Editing by Clarence Fernandez, Michael Perry, Kirsten Donovan, William Maclean
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Saudi-led coalition strikes Yemen’s Sanaa airport
Dec 20 (Reuters) – The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen on Monday said it carried out air strikes on what it called military targets at Yemen’s Sanaa international airport, from where drone strikes have been launched against Saudi targets.
The Yemeni capital is held by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, which has been battling the coalition for seven years.
During the conflict, which has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions, Houthi forces have sent drones and fired missiles into Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi-led coalition has retaliated with air strikes inside Yemen.
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Tuesday’s strikes hit six sites, including places used for launching drone attacks, training drone personnel, housing trainers and trainees, and storing drones, the coalition said.
It said it had asked civilians to evacuate the airport before the strike, according to a statement carried by Saudi state media.
The airport has been closed to civilian flights since 2015 although U.N. planes have been permitted to land there.
A spokesperson for the U.N’s World Food Programme said a U.N. team was on the ground at the airport to verify the extent of any damage.
Houthi-run Saba media, quoting the head of the Houthi administration’s aviation authority, said the airport had been put out of operation.
But coalition spokesman Brigadier General Turki al-Malki said the strikes would have no effect on operational capacity, airspace management, air traffic, or ground handling operations.
He said the coalition had removed protections from specific sites in the airport which it said were being used for military purposes, and the operation was in accordance with international humanitarian law.
“The operation comes in response to threats and the use of the airport’s facilities to launch cross-border attacks,” it said.
On Sunday, the coalition said it had destroyed a drone launched from the airport aimed at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah airport in Jizan, near Yemen’s border. It also said it struck drones workshops in Sanaa city. read more
The coalition intervened in Yemen in 2015 after the Houthis ousted the internationally recognised government from Sanaa.
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Reporting by Nayera Abdallah, Omar Fahmy, Moataz Mohamed and Lisa Barrington; editing by John Stonestreet
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