Brigadier General Yahya Saree, a spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, said early Monday that Yemeni forces had used five ballistic missiles and five drones in a combined operation on “sensitive” military sites in southwestern Saudi Arabia over the previous 24 hours, according to Al Masirah news.
The operation targeted a camp of the Saudi National Guard in Najran, and military positions in Abha International airport in the city of Abha as well as King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait.
Saree said in a tweet that the hit was accurate.
He stressed that the operation was carried out in retaliation for Saudi Arabia's continued siege and aggression against Yemen.
Saudi Arabia and some of its regional allies, backed by the US and other Western powers, have been waging a devastating war on Yemen beginning in March 2015 to reinstall Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, and crush the popular Ansarullah movement.
The Saudi war, which Riyadh had claimed would last only a few weeks but is still ongoing, has failed to achieve its goals, but pushed Yemen to the brink, killed tens of thousands of innocent people, and destroyed the impoverished state’s infrastructure.
The United Nations has described the war on Yemen as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Yemeni forces regularly target positions inside Saudi Arabia in response to the bloody war and blockade.