Sana’a reports a direct strike on a military operations room in Aden following deadly Saudi-led coalition attacks on civilians and fishermen, as Britain prepares to deploy Typhoon jets to Saudi Arabia and Egypt considers authorizing military support.

SANA’A -- Yemen's Ansarullah-led armed forces said on Wednesday they had fired a ballistic missile that directly hit the operations room of Saudi-backed forces at Badr military camp in Aden province, while rejecting Saudi claims that they had launched drones toward Medina, in a day of intensifying exchanges across multiple fronts.

"Our armed forces were able to target the operations room of forces affiliated with the Saudi enemy at Badr camp in Aden province with a ballistic missile," Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said in a statement, adding that the attack was "accurate and directly hit the intended target."

Al Jazeera reporters on the ground said a missile struck Aden International Airport, with explosions heard in the area. Sana'a-based media said the strike was launched from the al-Sabrah area south of Ibb province.

Saree dismissed reports that a drone had been intercepted over Medina as "false and a major attempt to mislead public opinion against our honorable and devoted people and armed forces."

He said: "The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that they did not carry out any military operation deep inside Saudi Arabia today."

He also denied Saudi-led coalition allegations of drones launched toward the Eastern Province, calling them "baseless and unsubstantiated" and aimed at tarnishing the image of Yemen and its armed forces.

Saudi-led coalition spokesman Brigadier General Turki al-Maliki had earlier claimed on X that the alliance detected and destroyed four drones in the Medina and Eastern regions, followed by a fifth toward the Eastern Province. No casualties or damage were reported.

In a second statement, Saree said Yemeni forces had struck Saudi military equipment flown by cargo aircraft into Riyan airport in the port city of Mukalla.

"The criminal Saudi enemy is using Riyan Airport to transport weapons and military equipment aimed at the massacre of Yemeni people," he said, warning that Riyadh is making use of Yemeni civilian facilities to advance its military agenda.

The war media of Yemen's government published video footage on Wednesday of an operation targeting a gathering of Saudi-affiliated militiamen and destroying and setting fire to a number of their military vehicles east of the Ragwan area in Ma’rib province.

The Ma’rib front in northern Yemen has witnessed fierce clashes in recent weeks between Yemeni army forces and Saudi-backed militias. The province, given its high military importance, has consistently seen confrontations.

Saree said on Tuesday night that the Saudi-led coalition carried out 93 air and missile attacks against Yemen over the previous 24 hours, targeting civilian sites across al-Jawf, Ta’izz, Sa'ada, Ma’rib, Hajjah, Lahij, Amran and Ibb, killing and wounding a number of civilians.

The Sana'a-based health ministry said Saudi strikes killed eight fishermen off the al-Kadha coast in the Dhubab district of Ta’izz, near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

According to the ministry, the first strike hit a fishing boat anchored near the shore, while a second targeted survivors attempting to flee in another boat, killing them all.

Yemen's Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry condemned the attack as a "crime against civilians," saying the fishermen were pursued and struck while working in coastal waters and trying to escape, and rejected coalition claims that traditional boats were being used to smuggle weapons, missiles and military equipment.

Rights organizations say the Saudi-led coalition has killed dozens of Yemeni fishermen, including children, since 2018.

In a separate attack on Tuesday, Saudi fighter jets bombed the al-Nashma area of al-Ma'afer district in Ta’izz province three times, killing one civilian and wounding four others, including a mother and her three children, according to the health ministry.

Ta’izz has become a major focus of fighting in recent weeks, with Saudi warplanes striking different parts of the province on a near-daily basis.

Local authorities on Tuesday raised the death toll from an Ansarullah strike on a military camp belonging to Saudi-backed forces a day earlier to 73, with 200 others wounded, most of them new recruits hit during a training drill.

On the ground, the Ansarullah-led Yemeni armed forces have carried out several major operations along the Red Sea coast in recent weeks, driving Saudi-backed forces from strategic positions, capturing the port city of Mokha and advancing toward Bab el-Mandeb.

They have since seized strategic areas and islands around the waterway, significantly strengthening their position at one of the world's most important maritime chokepoints.

The escalation follows Saudi Arabia's bombing of Sana'a international airport in July. The Yemeni armed forces responded by enforcing a "blockade for blockade" policy and declaring an embargo on Saudi shipping in the Red Sea, mounting several naval operations targeting ships linked to Riyadh, impacting the kingdom's energy exports and launching retaliatory attacks on targets deep inside Saudi Arabia.

Britain said on Tuesday it would deploy Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets to Saudi Arabia for missions against Yemen’s retaliatory missile and drone strikes, alongside military advisers and an RAF A400M transport aircraft.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi last week requested parliamentary authorization to act in Saudi Arabia's defense if asked. The National Defense Council subsequently pledged all necessary and possible support, and parliament is set to vote on the authorization next week.

The United States has supported the Saudi air campaign with intelligence and targeting assistance and has resumed refueling Saudi fighter jets involved in the aggression.

The war traces back to March 2015, when Saudi Arabia and a U.S.-backed coalition launched a sweeping military campaign and blockade aimed at reinstating the ousted regime in Sana'a.

More than a decade of bombardment and the deployment of advanced Western weaponry have killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis, while Riyadh has failed to achieve its stated objective of reinstating the Saudi-backed fugitive regime.