The UAE Ministry of Defense announced, on Monday, that its air defenses had intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis in Yemen, according to the Emirates News Agency (WAM).
Timelessness agency The attack did not result in casualties.
“The remnants of the intercepted and destroyed ballistic missiles fell in separate areas around the Emirate of Abu Dhabi,” the statement added.
The Ministry of Defense announces the interception and destruction of two ballistic missiles launched by the terrorist Houthi group towards a country #UAE # وام
For details: https://t.co/8V1rOlgCwZ pic.twitter.com/tcPYgzoAb4— Emirates News Agency (@wamnews) January 24, 2022
This attack comes hours after what was reported by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), from the Saudi-led coalition, about the injury of two residents, one of whom is a Sudanese and the other from Bangladesh, as a result of the fall of a ballistic missile launched by the Yemeni Houthi group, on Sunday, on an industrial area in the south of the Kingdom.
The agency stated that a number of workshops and vehicles were damaged in the attack, which targeted the industrial area of Uhud Al-Masraha in the southwest of the country.
The coalition also announced “the interception and destruction of two drones that took off from the Yemeni governorate of Al-Jawf” towards the Kingdom.
The coalition has been fighting the Houthis, allied with Iran in Yemen since 2015, and intensified its air strikes on what it describes as Houthi military targets after the group carried out an unprecedented attack on the UAE last Monday, as well as launching missiles and drones on Saudi cities.
The Houthis had repeatedly threatened to strike the UAE, a member of the military coalition, but last Monday’s attack was the first confirmed Houthi attack on its territory, and it was carried out with missiles and drones, according to what the Houthis announced, and it hit oil tanks in an industrial area near the Abu Dhabi Oil Company (ADNOC).
The confrontation between the coalition and the Yemeni Houthis has escalated in recent weeks, as Saudi aircraft intensified their raids on Houthi-controlled lands, who in turn doubled their attacks with ballistic missiles and drones, targeting lands in neighboring Saudi Arabia.
The escalation also included the Houthi kidnapping of a ship flying the UAE flag in the Red Sea and the detention of its crew.
And last Friday, at least 70 people were killed in a raid on a prison in Saada in northern Yemen, and the Houthis accused the coalition aircraft of carrying out it, but the coalition denied this.