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Houthis from Yemen used drones and missiles to attack six targets in Saudi Arabia, including an Aramco fuel depot and liquefied natural gas plant.
The attacks prompted Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser, to condemn the strikes.
“The Houthis launch these terrorist attacks with enabling by Iran, which supplies them with missile and UAV components, training, and expertise,” he said, according to Bloomberg.
Saudi state-run media said the attacks targeted a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, water desalination plant, oil facility, and power station. Al Jazeera, citing military officials, reported that civilian vehicles and homes were damaged in the attacks that spanned Saturday through Sunday.
State television al-Ekhbariya reported that three drones were intercepted and another attack on the LNG plant in Yanbu was thwarted.
The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the war in Yemen. (See “U.S. FIGHTING YEMEN WAR,” “U.S. RAMPING UP MIDDLE EAST WARS” and “13 MILLION YEMENIS ARE HEADED FOR STARVATION AND NOBODY CARES.”)
Yemen’s civil war started in 2014, when the Houthis, who were ruling large sections of Yemen for over 1,000 years, overthrew the unelected president put in control by the Saudis. The Houthis eventually took control of Sana’a, and then seized the presidential palace.
The Saudi-backed coalition is concerned that Houthi rule in Yemen would mean rival Iran would gain a foothold at the border with Saudi Arabia.
The war has been brutal and the United Nations once called it the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. VOA News reported that the UN on Wednesday expressed disappointment after it raised $1.3 billion in humanitarian aid instead of the $4.27 billion target.
U.S. Sends Patriot Missiles to Saudi Arabia
After months of discussions, the U.S. decided to send Saudi Arabia “a significant number” of Patriot anti missile systems to respond to the uptick in drone and missile attacks, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
The report pointed out that there has been a recent increase in tension between Riyadh and Washington over its oil production due to Russian sanctions. Officials from Washington insist that these tensions played no role in the delay—rather the system is also needed by other allies.
The anti missile systems were in U.S. stockpiles positioned at other locations across the Middle East, the paper said.
TREND FORECAST: The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen that is playing out due to Saudi Arabia’s attack on the nation.
Thus, we maintain our forecast that the Saudi/U.S. alliance will not defeat the Houthis, and the war will rage on, killing tens of thousands of innocent people while inflicting devastating and deadly hardship across the nation.
The war will continue to be ignored by the mainstream media and the vast majority of the world will be ignorant to the human suffering the United States and Saudi Arabia have inflicted upon the nation.