A military source confirmed that the Yemeni army and popular forces targeted the oil giant in Jizan with a ballistic missile of "Badr 1" type, confirming that the missile got its target accurately.
A military official also said that, the air defenses of the army and committees shot down an espionage drone belonging to the Saudi-led coalition aggression in Gara valley.
This is not the first time that Aramco's facilities are targeted by the Yemeni missiles. Saudi oil companies have oil facilities both in Dhahran in the Easternmost parts of the country near Bahrain and in Dhahran Asir in the South.
Saudi Arabia often claims that it intercepts incoming Yemeni missiles, but a close study of evidence by The New York Times last year clearly suggested that in one of the most high-profile of such Yemeni missile attacks, the projectile, launched deep into Saudi territory, had in fact landed unimpeded, bypassing American-made Patriot missiles and potentially other defenses used by Riyadh. Saudi Arabia claimed that it had foiled that attack, which targeted the Riyadh airport.
Saudi Arabia and its allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015 in support of the country’s former Riyadh-friendly government. The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the Saudi-led war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured until then.
