The Saudi Civil Aviation Authority announced that Abha and King Khalid International Airports were subjected to two attacks targeting their facilities on Tuesday and Wednesday, noting that 3 people died, 36 others were injured, and material damage occurred.
The authority explained, in a statement, that the blatant attack on Abha International Airport resulted in two deaths of two female residents. A Moroccan and an Algerian woman, and 28 injured citizens, and two residents of Bangladeshi and Filipino nationalities, whose injuries ranged from minor to severe.
The statement added that the attack on King Khalid International Airport resulted in the death of a Sudanese resident, and 8 injuries, including 5 citizens, 2 Egyptian residents, and one Pakistani, ranging from minor to severe.
The authority noted that the emergency teams and competent authorities began dealing with the two attacks immediately after they occurred in accordance with approved procedures and plans, adding that all the injured were immediately transferred to the hospital to receive the necessary medical care.
The statement confirmed that the authority is working - in continuous integration and coordination with the relevant security authorities - to assess the damage, and take all necessary measures to ensure the safety of travelers and workers, and to maintain the security and safety of the civil aviation system in the country.
Major General Turki Al-Maliki, spokesman for the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, announced the destruction of a ballistic missile launch pad used in the Riyadh attack, indicating that the destruction took place in Sanaa during preparations for an imminent attack on Saudi Arabia.
Systematic crimes
Jassim Al-Budaiwi, Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, condemned, in the strongest and harshest terms, the Houthi terrorist attacks, stressing that targeting civilian airports and endangering the lives of travelers, workers, and civilians represents a dangerous escalation and a flagrant violation of international laws and norms.
Al-Budaiwi stressed, in a statement, that these systematic crimes that target civilians and civilian facilities and threaten regional and international peace and security require a firm and deterrent international stance, and not allowing them to continue.
The Secretary-General reaffirmed that the Gulf states stand united by Saudi Arabia, and their full solidarity with it in the face of everything that threatens its security, stability, sovereignty, and the safety of its citizens and residents of its lands, and its support for all its measures to protect its lands, capabilities, and security.
Strong condemnation
The Council of Arab Interior Ministers expressed its strong condemnation of the Houthi terrorist attacks on the two airports, and its General Secretariat said that it “expresses its strict condemnation and absolute denunciation of the militia’s continued attacks on civilians and civilian objects in Saudi Arabia, its flagrant violation of international law, and its threat to the security and stability of the region.”
The General Secretariat of the Council affirmed, in a statement, its full solidarity and full support of Saudi Arabia in the measures it is taking to preserve its security, stability, capabilities, and the safety of its citizens and residents of its lands.
Blatant violation
In a statement, the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the two Houthi attacks, and considered them a blatant violation of Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty, a threat to its security and stability, and a flagrant violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations.
The Ministry's spokesman, Ambassador Fouad Al-Majali, affirmed his country's condemnation of the attacks on civilian and economic objects in Saudi Arabia, and Jordan's absolute solidarity with the Kingdom, and its support in all the steps it takes to protect its security, stability, capabilities, and the safety of its citizens and residents.
