Missiles pointed at the world: Houthis defy international laws

Mahmoud Mohammadi

Hardly a day passes without the Yemeni arena witnessing new developments that reveal the Houthi militia’s efforts to undermine security and stability in the region in a systematic and deliberate manner that reflects its blatant defiance of the international community and its disregard for all international laws and norms.

The latest of these developments is being witnessed in the capital, Sanaa, where the Houthis turned it into a large workshop for the manufacture of weapons, ballistic missiles and drones to be used in its terrorist operations, in addition to targeting civilians in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

Manufacturing missiles

In addition, the Saudi-led Arab coalition in Yemen recently announced the destruction of several Houthi workshops specialized in the manufacture of ballistic missiles and drones in Sanaa.

In a statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the coalition confirmed that it had carried out air strikes on military camps and targets in Sanaa, explaining that the operation targeted the presidential residence camps under the control of the Houthis, as well as destroying ballistic missile workshops, drones, and underground warehouses.

While the Arab coalition forces have threatened to target those involved in hostilities and terrorist leaders who work to spread terror in Yemen and its Arab surroundings, the Houthi-affiliated Al-Masirah channel announced via Twitter that the coalition’s warplanes “launched three raids on the Al-Nahdin area, south of the capital, Sanaa, without further details.”

The workshops and warehouses destroyed by the Arab coalition are not the first of their kind. Over the past months, the Houthis have tried several times to build workshops to manufacture their weapons, but the Arab coalition has been on the lookout for them.

In March, the coalition launched air strikes targeting Houthi militia sites, including in Sanaa, Amran and Hodeidah.

The coalition strikes targeted a missile launcher in the Hamdan suburb north of the capital, in addition to camps in Al-Nahdin, Al-Hafa and Jarban to the south.

Successive Houthi losses

Over the past days, the Houthi militia has received painful blows on the Marib fronts, while Arab coalition fighters have resumed strikes on Sanaa camps, the center of terrorist operations.

The military and air operations by the Arab coalition, the Yemeni army and the tribes are considered a response to the persistence of the Houthi militia and the Tehran regime behind it in escalating the war and launching terrorist and ground attacks inside Yemen and towards civilian areas in Saudi Arabia.