JERUSALEM, 15 March, 2021, (TON): Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said he was discouraged from flying to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through Saudi Arabian airspace last week.

Netanyahu had called off a visit to the Emirates last week over a spat with neighboring Jordan, which had temporarily closed its airspace to the Israeli PM’s flight.

He did not elaborate, nor did he say his plane was targeted by the Iran-backed Houthis.

Yemen's Houthi rebels, who control the capital and a large part of the nation's north, have raised their cross-line assaults on basic Saudi framework as of late, smashing bomb-loaded drones and rockets into the realm's Patriot rocket batteries and uncovering holes in the nation's guards.

A week ago, rockets and drones hit one of the world's biggest oil transporting ports and ended air traffic toward the worldwide air terminal in the port city of Jeddah. While Houthi-asserted assaults on Saudi Arabia infrequently cause generous harm, such strikes have annoyed the world economy and raise the danger of an interruption in worldwide oil supplies.