Houthis will respond ‘eye for an eye’ to Saudi attacks

Houthis will respond ‘eye for an eye’ to Saudi attacks – foreign minister

RT

Yemen’s Houthis will continue retaliatory strikes against Saudi airports and oil facilities as long as Riyadh continues its military operations in Yemen, the Houthi administration’s acting foreign minister, Abdulwahid Abu Ras, has told RT. 

He said the fighting could end if Saudi Arabia lifted its blockade and withdrew its forces from Yemeni territory.

Recent Houthi-claimed strikes on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport have killed at least 14 people and injured more than 300 over the weekend. On Tuesday, the Saudi-led coalition struck a fuel depot near Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. 

The minister described the group’s approach as “an eye for an eye,” saying Houthi forces were targeting Saudi oil facilities, infrastructure, and military positions in retaliation.

“Siege for siege, airport for airport, ports for ports, and escalation for escalation,” Abu Ras told RT India Managing Editor Ashok Bagriya in an exclusive interview. 

The renewed confrontation began in July when strikes on Sanaa airport were followed by Houthi missile attacks on Saudi Arabia, breaking years of relative calm following a United Nations-brokered truce in 2022. United Nations envoy Hans Grundberg warned last week that Yemen had returned to full-scale war. 

“Our red lines are that the blockade on Yemen, our airports, and our ports must not continue,”Abu Ras said. He also demanded access to the country’s oil and gas resources.

He said the Houthi administration remains prepared for direct negotiations with Riyadh despite Saudi Arabia allegedly failing to implement earlier humanitarian agreements. “We invite the Saudi regime to sit at the negotiation table to implement what was agreed upon,” Abu Ras said, calling for humanitarian facilities to be kept out of the fighting.