Hushists, who oppose a civil war in Yemen at a coalition led by Riyadh, hit several industrial sites of the Saudi Kingdom, including an oil installation.
Le Monde with AFP
The Hushist rebels referred to Saturday, March 19 several targets in Saudi Arabia, including an installation of the Aramco oil giant in Jizan, in the south of the country. The rebels also touched a desalinization plant in Al-Shaqeq and a Dhahran Al-JanBoub power plant, according to a communiqué of the coalition led by Riyadh in Yemen, cited by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
The coalition indicated that four drones had been intercepted and destroyed in the south near Yemen. This region is regularly the target of attacks of drones and humanist missiles. The announcement comes after a petroleum refinery from the Saudi capital Riyadh was attacked on March 10 by a drone, an operation claimed by the Hushists.
In earlier this week, the Hushists rejected an invitation from the Gulf Cooperation Council composed of six countries in the region to participate in the talks on conflict in Yemen, to be held in Riyadh from March 29th.
Febrile oil markets
Saudi Arabia leads a military coalition in Yemen in support of the internationally recognized government, engaged in a bloody conflict against humanist, supported by Iran, since mid-2014. The war has made hundreds of thousands of deaths while millions of people have been forced to flee their homes, in what the United Nations qualified as worse humanitarian crisis in the world.
Houthist rebels often target airports and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, one of the largest oil exporters in the world, in the context of management by the Kingdom of the Military Coalition against them.
This last attack then intervenes that Aramco is preparing to announce its results on Sunday for 2021. Global oil markets are very febrile about the consequences of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia on energy supply.