Houthis Launch Another Attack on Pumping Stations Along Crucial Saudi East-West

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On Tuesday the Houthis launched another major missile salvo deep inside Saudi Arabia, however Saudi authorities have yet to acknowledge the fresh attack, or to publicly assess…

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On Tuesday the Houthis launched another major missile salvo deep inside Saudi Arabia, however Saudi authorities have yet to acknowledge the fresh attack, or to publicly assess possible damage - though there are reports of missile alerts in the kingdom.

The Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, announced the group once again targeted King Khalid International Airport, as well as multiple pumping stations along the kingdom's East-West pipeline.

Saree further claimed fresh attacks on an Aramco facility in Abqaiq and the Riyadh's financial district.

He added that the Houthis "targeted Saudi enemy troop concentrations overseen by the Saudi officer Badr al-Harbi in the al-Mudharabah and Ras al-Arah districts, resulting in a large number of dead and wounded."

It's unclear whether the financial district attack was a reference from the day prior, when a Houthi attack damaged an Aramco office in Riyadh.

What's clear is that these cross-border attacks are coming daily, and the Saudis seem powerfless to stop them, and there's been no major military help coming from Western allies like the US or UK (only minimal assistance, for example - intelligence cooperation).

This is having a serious impact on the kingdom's economy, at a sensitive moment that Gulf states in general are seeking to present themselves as places of 'stability' and ripe for investment.

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