SANA’A (Dispatches) – A retaliatory projectile allegedly launched by Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement fell in Jazan, southwest Saudi Arabia, and left at least five people injured, the Saudi state news agency said on late Saturday.
An alleged photo of the fallen missile, shot in retaliation against the Saudi regime’s bombardment of Yemen, has been posted online.
Five civilians were injured when a military projectile hit a village in Saudi Arabia’s southern Jazan region, according to Reuters.
State news agency SPA quoted a military spokesman as saying three cars were damaged in the border village and that the five civilians suffered minor injuries from shrapnel.
There was no confirmation of the attack by the Houthis. Houthi fighters have fired missiles and drones towards Saudi cities.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015 in order to bring former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power and crush Ansarullah movement.
The U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the Saudi-led war has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past five years. Some 24 million Yemenis, or 80 percent of the country’s population, require some form of assistance or protection, according to the United Nations.
Riyadh and its allies have been widely criticized for the high civilian death toll resulted from their bombing campaign in Yemen.