Saudi Arabia 10 civilians were injured in a Houthi attack on Jazan airport

The Houthis have recently escalated their attacks on the cities of southern Saudi Arabia with drones and ballistic missiles, and last September recorded seven attacks.

Saudi TV said that the number of injuries among passengers and workers at Jizan Airport in the southwest of the Kingdom as a result of an attack by a Houthi plane rose to 10, while the Riyadh-led coalition said it had intercepted a second booby-trapped drone launched by the Yemeni Houthi group on the airport.

The spokesman for the coalition, Brigadier Turki Al-Maliki, said that 6 of the injured are Saudi travelers and workers at King Abdullah Airport in Jazan, in addition to the injury of 3 Bengali workers and another from Sudan as a result of an attack launched by a booby-trapped drone launched by the Houthi group, and the coalition stated that all injuries were minor.

Brigadier Al-Maliki added that the Houthi attack resulted in minor material damage and shattered some of the airport's facades, and said that targeting a civilian airport "may amount to a war crime for deliberately targeting civilians and protected civilian objects under special protection under international humanitarian law and its customary rules."

And he explained in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency, that the airport passes through thousands of civilian passengers, Saudis and foreigners residing in the Kingdom.

Bombed again

Later on Saturday, Al-Ekhbariya TV quoted the coalition as saying that it had intercepted and destroyed a second booby-trapped drone that was launched towards the airport.

The Houthis did not claim responsibility for the attack, but they often carry out drone and ballistic missile attacks on the kingdom, in response to the intervention of the Riyadh-led coalition in the Yemeni war to support the legitimate forces, in order to regain power after the Houthi coup and their control of the capital, and large parts of the country since year 2014.

The Houthis recently escalated their attacks on the cities of southern Saudi Arabia with drones and ballistic missiles, and last September recorded 7 attacks, the most prominent of which was a ballistic missile attack that wounded two children in Dammam in the oil-rich eastern region.

For seven years, Yemen has been witnessing a war between the legitimate forces backed by the coalition and the Iranian-backed Houthis. The war has left tens of thousands of people dead, including many civilians, and has caused the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, according to the United Nations.