BEIRUT — Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed they hit an Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, the latest in a string of attacks on the kingdom by the group, but hours later there was still no confirmation from Saudi authorities.
Around 7 a.m. local time, Brig. Gen. Yahya Sarea, the spokesperson for Yemen’s northern Houthi rebels, said in a tweet that a winged missile called “Quds 2” successfully hit its target in an Aramco facility in Jiddah. The same type of projectile was used in the Houthis’ last attack on the oil company in November.
The attack was “a natural response” to the “brutal blockade and aggression on our dear people,” Sarea wrote. Attached to his tweet was an aerial photograph with coordinates of what seems to be a distribution station in Jiddah, the same facility struck in November.
The attack was the third on Saudi Arabia just that day: the Houthis said they hit King Khaled air base in Khamis Mushait in the south of the kingdom and Saudi state media reported an attack on Jazan by the Yemeni border, saying it intercepted and destroyed a missile.
