Houthi rebels "attack Saudi Arabia's east-west oil pipeline and Yanbu oil facilities" (comprehensive)

Successful attack on Riyadh Aramco facility and military cargo plane

(Cairo = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Sang-hoon = Yemen's pro-Iran rebels Houthis claimed on the 12th (local time) that they attacked the East-West oil pipeline and oil facilities, which are Saudi Arabia's means of transporting oil that bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

Houthi rebel spokesman Yahya Sari said in a statement, "We successfully completed two military operations, targeting pumping station number 7 of the East-West oil pipeline using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) and targeting oil facilities in Yanbu with ballistic missiles."

Spokesperson Sari went on to dismiss Saudi Arabia's announcement that it had intercepted two Houthi rebel missiles over Mecca, Islam's holiest site, as an "obvious lie."

He criticized, “Saudi Arabia resorts to fabricating false claims by selling the names of holy sites every time our military succeeds in hitting oil facilities and their interception nets are breached.”

The Houthis later claimed in a separate statement that they had struck facilities of state-run oil company Aramco and major air force bases in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, with drones and ballistic missiles.

“We have just succeeded in targeting Aramco in Riyadh with a drone, and the operation achieved its objectives,” the statement said.

He added, “We completed the operational goal by mobilizing drones to target a military cargo plane at Sharurah Airport, and we also successfully hit a ballistic missile attack targeting Khamis Mushait Air Base.”