CAIRO, 25 January 2022, (TON): The Saudi authorities condemned the recent attacks by the Houthi rebels from the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen on the Saudi cities of Dhahran and Jizan, as well as on the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Abu Dhabi, and called on the UN Security Council (SC) to put an end to their aggressive actions.

“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia condemns the attacks by Iran-backed Houthi terrorists (from the Ansar Allah movement approx. on civilian and vital facilities located in the south of the kingdom and (in the capital of the United Arab Emirates) Abu Dhabi.

The statement, published on the page of the Kingdom’s Foreign Office, said “in the last such attack, [carried out] on the city of Zahran in the south of the country and an industrial zone in the city of Jizan in the southwest of the kingdom, two citizens from Bangladesh and Sudan were slightly injured.”

Riyadh stressed that the persistence with which Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists commit repeated attacks is a challenge to the international community and a clear violation of international humanitarian law.”

The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defense informed about the interception and destruction of two ballistic missiles that were sent by the Houthis in the direction of Abu Dhabi.