Saudi-led coalition said on Monday that it has launched air strikes against Yemen’s Houthi insurgents.
The coalition targeted the rebel-held capital Sanaa, following a terror attack on Abu Dhabi.
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Houthi militia targeted UAE and Saudi civilian sites killing three people and injuring six others in the UAE capital.
“In response to the threat and (out of) military necessity, air strikes have begun in Sanaa,” the official Saudi Press Agency said on Twitter.
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This came few hours after the UAE vowed that the suspected drone attacks on its civilian facilities by Yemen-based Houthi militants will not go unpunished.
The Arab Coalition said the air force was conducting 24-hour air operations in Sanaa, and called on civilians to stay away from Houthi militia camps for their own safety.
Brigadier General Turki Al Malki, the official Spokesperson of the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, called the terror attacks on UAE’s civilian facilities as war crimes.
