SANA’A, 25 April, 2021 (TON): Yemen's Houthi movement said on Sunday it had attacked and hit a military air base in southern Saudi Arabia with a drone but the Saudi-led coalition fighting the group said it had intercepted and destroyed an armed drone fired into the kingdom. 

A Houthi military spokesman said on Twitter the group had targeted the King Khalid air base in Khamis Mushait with a drone. 

There was no Saudi confirmation of any hit. 

The military coalition led by Saudi Arabia said it intercepts the majority of Houthi missile and drone attacks. 

The Houthis took over the Yemeni capital Sanaa and most other cities in 2014 after ousting the Saudi-backed internationally-recognized government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The Western-backed coalition that Saudi Arabia leads intervened to try to restore Hadi to power. 

Riyadh has proposed a truce, but the Houthis reject the offer, saying they want the full lifting of a sea and air blockade which allows the Saudi-led coalition to restrict imports into Yemen. 

The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting the Iran-backed Houthi rebels since March 2015. 

The conflict has killed 100,000 people and led to what the United Nations describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. The UN estimates that twenty-two million Yemenis remain in need of assistance, eight million are at risk of famine, and a cholera outbreak has affected over one million people. All sides of the conflict are reported to have violated human rights and international humanitarian law.