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The "Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen" announced on Wednesday the destruction of a missile launcher in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthis, "while preparing for an imminent attack" against Saudi Arabia.
Coalition spokesperson Turki Al-Maliki said in a statement: "We destroyed the ballistic missile launcher used in the Riyadh attack, in Sanaa, while it was preparing for an imminent attack towards the Kingdom."
Al-Maliki accompanied his statement with a video clip showing an air-to-ground missile strike, with columns of smoke rising from the site after the targeting.
As of 19:30 (GMT), there has been no comment from the Houthis regarding Al-Maliki's statement.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Saudi-led coalition reported the "interception and destruction of a ballistic missile north of Riyadh launched by the terrorist Houthi militia," which the group denied.
On Tuesday, the coalition announced the interception and destruction of a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis towards the city of Khamis Mushait in southern Saudi Arabia, without providing details.
It added that "the occupied capital, Sanaa, and the governorates of Saada and Amran (north) are the sources of Houthi missile threats."
These developments are part of a military escalation that began last July, the widest since a relative calm witnessed in Yemen thanks to a truce that began in April 2022.
Yemen has been witnessing a war since the Houthis took control of the capital, Sanaa, and several governorates in September 2014, before a Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened in March 2015 to support the Yemeni government.
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