The coalition announces the destruction of a Houthi ballistic missile towards the southern region

(CNN) - The Saudi-led coalition to support legitimacy in Yemen announced on Monday that it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis towards the southern region.

The official spokesman for the coalition forces, Major General Turki Al-Maliki, said on Monday that “the air defense intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the terrorist Houthi militia towards the southern region,” according to what was reported by the Saudi “SPA” news agency.

Turki Al-Maliki announced, on Sunday evening, that a drone launched by the Houthis towards the southern region had been intercepted and destroyed.

On the other hand, the spokesman for the Houthi militants, Yahya Saree, said that during the past 24 hours, Saudi military aircraft “launched 75 air strikes and missile strikes in the governorates of Saada, Taiz, Amran, Ibb, Dhamar, Lahj, Hodeidah, and Al-Jawf, with F-15 and Typhoon planes that took off from the Khamis Mushait and Taif bases,” he said.

Saree explained in a post on his account on the “X” platform, previously Twitter, on Sunday evening, that the total Saudi air and missile strikes on Houthi positions amounted to 3,830 strikes since the start of the escalation.

Yahya Sarie's blog came after the Saudi-led "Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen" announced on Sunday that it had carried out a military operation, which it described as "qualitative", to neutralize the vital sources used by the Houthi group to carry out its repeated attacks in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

The coalition published footage that it said was "of the destruction of vital resources in the Hodeidah and Dhamar governorates, which the Houthi militia is using to support its war effort," according to SPA.

This comes amid continuing armed confrontations between the Iran-backed Houthis and the Yemeni army forces of the internationally recognized government in a number of Yemeni governorates.