These strikes are conducted on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the intervention of the military coalition led by Riyadh in Yemen. They delayed the free trials of the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix of Formula 1.
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
The Houthist Yemeni rebels claimed on Friday, March 25 in a statement a series of 16 attacks in Saudi Arabia, of which caused a gigantic fire on an oil installation of the Aramco oil giant in Jedda. A spokesman for the Hushists reported attacks using drones and missiles.
These strikes were conducted on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the intervention of a military coalition led by Riyadh in Yemen to combat the Houthist rebels close to Iran.
These attacks have delayed the free trials of the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix of Formula 1 in Jedda. The session began with fifteen minutes late, at 8:15 pm Local (6:15 pm in Paris), after the pilots and the bodies of stables were received by the CEO of the F1, Stefano Domenicali, to inform them of The situation.
The fire “has been mastered and did not do victims,” the military coalition announced in Yemen against the rebels, in a statement. Start of the evening, stating that he would have “no impact on the activities in the city of Jedda”.
The Saudi Kingdom, the world’s first exporter in the world, had warned on Monday of the risk of a decline in oil production in the aftermath of several attacks of drones and missiles claimed by the Hushists. One of them targeted a Aramco refinery in the industrial city of Yanbu on the Red Sea, about a hundred kilometers north of Jedda.