The Coalition Destroys Houthi Missile Tunnels and Launch Platforms

The Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy in Yemen announced the execution of a distinctive military operation to destroy and neutralize legitimate military targets in areas controlled by the Houthi militia, including five tunnels for storing ballistic missiles, four launch platforms, and missile storage facilities, in response to repeated attacks targeting civilians and civilian objects in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

The Coalition’s official spokesperson, Major General Turki Al-Maliki, stated that the operation also focused on cutting off the militia’s supply lines between its controlled areas, and targeted its fortifications, troop concentrations, and military equipment along the front lines inside Yemen.

Al-Maliki emphasized that operations against the militia would continue to protect civilians and civilian objects in the Kingdom, as well as innocent civilians inside Yemen, stressing that the operation complied with international humanitarian law and its customary rules.

Earlier, the Coalition’s official spokesperson said that air defense systems intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthi militia toward Riyadh.

Major General Turki Al-Maliki, official spokesperson for the Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy in Yemen, announced that the Coalition’s Joint Forces Command carried out a distinctive military operation against the Houthi militia to neutralize sources of threat, affirming that the operation was consistent with international humanitarian law and its customary rules.

In a statement, Major General Al-Maliki said the distinctive operation included the destruction and neutralization of legitimate military targets in areas controlled by the terrorist Houthi militia. The operation destroyed five tunnels for storing ballistic missiles, four ballistic missile launch platforms, and a missile storage facility, while focusing on cutting off the Houthi militia’s supply lines between its controlled areas. It also targeted the militia’s fortifications, troop concentrations, and military equipment along the front lines inside Yemen.

Al-Maliki clarified that the operation was carried out “in exercise of the inherent and legitimate right to self-defense to protect the security and territorial integrity of the Kingdom, and to safeguard its citizens and residents on its territory, and in response to repeated attacks by the terrorist Houthi militia, which attempted to target civilians and civilian objects in the Kingdom and Yemen using ballistic missiles and drones.”

Major General Al-Maliki reaffirmed that the Coalition’s Joint Forces Command would continue to carry out deterrent operational measures against the Houthi militia to protect civilians and civilian objects in the Kingdom from their brutal attacks, as well as to protect innocent civilians inside Yemen from the militia’s oppression, its relentless killing and persecution of Yemenis by all means and methods.