According to the AP, videos on social networks indicated that a fire broke out at the Saudi Aramco oil facility. Insurgent spokesman Jahja Saria wrote on Twitter that the rebels had fired a new surface-to-air missile, Kuds 2, at an oil operation. “The attack was very precise, ambulances and firefighters rushed to the target,” Saría added, according to Al Jazeera television.
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The Saudi Arabian agency SPA, referring to a source in the Ministry of Energy, announced that a fuel tank had started burning at a distribution station in Jeddah. However, she did not state the cause of the fire, the firefighters managed to put out the fire and no one was injured. According to the SPA, the incident did not endanger Saudi Aramco’s deliveries to customers.
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Houthis have claimed a cruise missile attack using Quds-2 missiles that targeted a distribution station that belonged to Saudi Aramco in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. pic.twitter.com/VaDOhZwhAt
— Intel Air & Sea (@air_intel) November 23, 2020
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According to a spokesman for the Yemeni insurgents, the attack was retaliation for the activities of a coalition under Riyadh, which is fighting the insurgents in Yemen. Reuters reported that the target of the attack was the Saudi Aramco distribution station. The traffic is located near the international airport, which is a transport artery for Muslim pilgrims heading to nearby Mecca.
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Already last year, the Saudi Aramco refinery was the target of an attack by Yemeni rebels, but Riyadh is convinced that it was undertaken by Iran, which supports rebels from the Shiite Husi tribe.
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Arabia is burdened by the protracted Yemeni war
A new attack, reported by insurgents, was launched shortly after the visit of the incumbent US Secretary of State Mike Pompe. In addition, a virtual G20 summit ended in the kingdom on Sunday.
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For many years, Yemen has been devastated by the conflict that escalated in early 2015, when Shiite rebels known as the Hussi seized most of the western part of the country and forced President Abdar Rabbú Mansour Hadí to flee abroad. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and seven other Arab states have been very concerned about the activities of the insurgents, which they consider to be Iran’s representatives. The coalition therefore launched an intervention to bring Yemen under the control of an internationally recognized government. But so far she has not succeeded. At the same time, Riyadh is facing international criticism that civilians are dying in its air raids.
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