Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthis Trade Threats To Hit Oil Facilities
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The Iran-backed militia threatened to attack the Saudi energy giant Aramco after the Saudi authorities issued an evacuation notice to an oil facility in the Yemeni capital.
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Reporting from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The threat against Aramco was made soon after Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki, a spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition that is fighting the Houthis in Yemen, told civilians to evacuate the site of al-Sabaha Central Station, an oil facility in Houthi-controlled Sanaa, in a post on social media.
Later on Tuesday, the Houthi-run television network al-Masirah reported that a Saudi airstrike had targeted the oil site, without elaborating. Saudi strikes on another oil facility in Hodeidah, in western Yemen, killed at least two people, Anis al-Asbahi, a spokesman for the Houthi-run health ministry, said on Tuesday.
It was not immediately possible to verify whether either of the sites had been hit, and the Saudi authorities did not respond to questions about the reported strikes.
It was unclear whether the Houthis would act on their threat against Aramco. The militia has targeted the company’s facilities before, and has frequently hit Saudi oil infrastructure and tankers in the Red Sea since tensions escalated between the two sides in July.
Saudi warplanes have been bombing Houthi positions in Yemen in support of the internationally recognized Yemeni government, which is fighting to retake territory seized by the Houthis last month.
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