Saudis, Houthis trade fresh strikes as conflict escalates

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RIYADH/SANAA  –  The Coalition to Sup­port Legitimacy in Ye­men said Tuesday that it had conducted a mili­tary operation target­ing Houthi capabilities linked to fuel facilities in Sanaa, Hodeidah and Dhamar, accusing the militia of exploiting civil­ian infrastructure to sup­port missile and drone attacks against Saudi Arabia and international shipping routes.

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Yemen’s Houthi-run health ministry says two people were killed when an oil company in the Red Sea province of Hodeidah was attacked, blaming Saudi Arabia for the strike.

Coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Ma­liki said the Joint Forces Command had estab­lished that the Houthis were using civilian facil­ities and vital resources to sustain their military operations. The facili­ties identified included Al-Sabaha Central Sta­tion in Sanaa, under­ground fuel reserves, storage tanks and infra­structure used for trans­porting and unloading fuel in Hodeidah, Sanaa and Dhamar.

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Al-Maliki said the mi­litia had diverted these resources from their in­tended civilian purpos­es to directly support its military operations, depriving the Yemeni population of essential supplies. He said the op­eration focused on neu­tralizing Houthi capa­bilities used to threaten Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the southern Red Sea and international mar­itime routes. “The Houthis must immedi­ately cease all terrorist operations targeting ci­vilians and civilian facil­ities, including airports, ports, oil installations and infrastructure,” Al-Maliki said.

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The announcement follows an earlier coa­lition warning urging civilians to evacuate Al-Sabaha Central Sta­tion in Sanaa ahead of a planned military opera­tion. US President Don­ald Trump said Tues­day Iran-backed Houthi rebels who control vast swaths of Yemen are “behaving very badly” in the conflict with a Saudi-backed coalition.

The group has re­cently escalated attacks on commercial ship­ping in the Red Sea and the vital Bab el-Man­deb Strait. The Houthis launched attacks on Ri­yadh’s King Khalid In­ternational Airport in recent days, killing 13 people, wounding more than 300, and closing the skies above the Sau­di capital.

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Trump tells report­ers that he “might” ask Turkish President Re­cep Tayyip Erdogan to intervene and support Saudi interests. “Pres­ident Erdogan, I think, would do as I ask,” Trump says.

Trump quips at a cam­paign rally that the US “might have gone too far” in its campaign to assassinate Iran’s lead­ers during the war, because now the US doesn’t “know who the hell we’re dealing with.” Trump made the ap­parently off-the-cuff re­marks at a campaign rally in Ohio yesterday evening. He seemed to be speaking in a light­hearted manner and was smiling. “They got no ships, they got no nothing, they got no leaders, even, that’s the problem,” Trump said. “We might have gone too far with the leaders because we don’t know who the hell we’re deal­ing with.” US President Donald Trump says that Washington is going to make a decision on Iran “very soon.”

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