The Saudi-led coalition later said it attacked 13 goals in Yemen during the war against the group.
Houthi militants in Yemen say they fired 14 drones in several Saudi cities on Saturday, including in Saudi Aramco in Jeddah, while Saudi media reports say a Saudi-led coalition attacked 13 Yemen targets in Yemen during the war against the group.
Yahya Saree, a spokesman for the Houthi military, said at a press conference on Saturday that the group had attacked the Aramco clearing area in Jeddah as well as military targets in Riyadh, Jeddah, Abha, Jizan and Najran.
Saree said the attack was due to an escalation of “extremism” by the Saudi-led Arab coalition “and the continuation of its offenses by besieging” Yemen.
However, mistakes were made in Saree’s words – he cited the wrong name of the international airport in Jeddah as well as the wrong location of King Khalid base, saying it was in Riyadh when it was just south of the empire.
Although there were no comments from the Saudi-led coalition on drone-attack allegations, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said the operation of the alliance in Yemen on Saturday hit airstrikes, air defense systems and drones communications systems in Sanaa. as well as Saada and Marib provinces.
The Iranian-backed Houthi group regularly announces rocket and drone attacks in Saudi areas, citing the alliance’s actions in Yemen.
Raiman Al Hamdani of the Yemen Policy Center told Al Jazeera that there were many reports “coming out now that Saudi Arabia does not want to continue its investment in the war in Yemen, but instead. [it wants to] moving its funds to protect its borders.
“So, when the Houthis shoot the drones or claim – even if they did not attack all these drones – it sounds good to them because it makes Saudi Arabia look a little weaker and makes them look more like a military,” Al Hamdani said.
“Thus, the people of Saudi Arabia cannot remain silent as all these threats continue to affect civilians and civilians in Saudi Arabia, so the airstrikes have done little in the past to reduce the spread of Houthi and I do not think. They have done much to do so today.”
Yemen has been plagued by violence and unrest since 2014, when Houthi seized much of the country, including Sanaa.
The crisis intensified in 2015 when a Saudi-led coalition launched an air-collar campaign aimed at restoring profits in the Houthi region.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the conflict has killed more than 233,000 people.
Efforts led by the UN and US to establish a ceasefire in Yemen have stalled.
The conflict, which has been seen as a metaphor for the war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, has been marred by war for decades.
The Houthis are concentrating on Marib, the world’s most famous northern end of the world, and parts of Yemen.
