Ballistic missile landed this afternoon inside Sa'ada governorate inside Yemen, JFC announces
Saudi Press Agency
Tuesday 1441/1/25 - 2019/09/24
Riyadh, Sep. 24, 2019, SPA -- The spokesman of the Joint Forces Command (JFC) of the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen Colonel Turki Al-Malki said that the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia fired a ballistic missile from a civilian platform in Harf Sufyan Directorate, Amran Governorate, Yemen, today afternoon corresponding to September 24, 2019, but fell afterwards in Saada Governorate, inside the Yemeni territory.
Colonel Al-Malki explained that the Houthi militia continued to violate international humanitarian law and bases of its norms by firing ballistic missiles which fall indiscriminately on civilians and civilian objects, directly affect housing complexes and threaten the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians inside Yemen.
He stressed that the Coalition's Joint Command continues to take strict and deterrent measures to neutralize and destroy these ballistic capabilities to protect civilians inside Yemen, as well as regional and international security.
--SPA
20:49 LOCAL TIME 17:49 GMT
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