The United Arab Emirates mentioned its forces shot down a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday throughout a historic go to by Israel’s President Isaac Herzog.
Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed the assault focused Abu Dhabi with “plenty of Zulfiqar ballistic missiles.”
Saree additionally mentioned Dubai was focused with a number of Sammad-3 long-range drones and warned of potential assaults to return.
“The state of the Emirati enemy will be unsafe so long as the instruments of the Israeli enemy in Abu Dhabi and Dubai proceed to launch aggression towards our folks and nation,” Saree tweeted.
The Emirati Defense Ministry confirmed that one ballistic missile was shot down shortly after midnight on Monday and that the particles fell harmlessly in an unpopulated space. The UAE responded to the assault by destroying a missile launch site in al-Jawf, Yemen.
“We’re decided to realize our targets and strategic imaginative and prescient in the direction of contributing to constructing a secure and affluent area for all, and upsetting us is not going to work,” Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s former international minister, tweeted on Monday.
The assault is the third tried Houthi strike on the UAE to be confirmed by the Emirati authorities.
The primary such assault killed three folks when drones struck gasoline tankers close to Abu Dhabi on Jan. 17. The strike got here after Emirati-backed Yemeni pro-government fighters contributed to sweeping battlefield features towards the Houthis in central Yemen.
Herzog vowed support for Emirati security throughout a go to with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Monday.
The US State Department condemned the assault. Emirati officers have urged the Biden administration to revive a terrorist designation for the Houthis, an choice the US president recommended is on the desk.
The Israeli president’s visit follows Prime Minister Neftali Bennett’s groundbreaking trip to the UAE in December, marking the primary ever go to by an Israeli chief to the Gulf nation.
The UAE and Israel participated in joint naval workout routines for the primary time late final 12 months together with Bahraini and US forces.
The UAE and Bahrain normalized ties with Israel final 12 months below a US-backed initiative geared toward constructing a regional bulwark towards Iran, which has supported the Houthis and varied different proxy militias throughout the area lately.
