Dubai: United Arab Emirates intercepted two ballistic missiles claimed by Houthi Yemeni rebels above the sky of Abu Dhabi on early Monday, the authorities said, the second attack in a week targeting the capital of Emirati.
Fire Missile further increase tensions throughout the Persian Gulf, who had previously seen a series of attacks near _ but had never been undeniable to the emirati land in the midst of the Yemeni war and the collapse of Iran’s nuclear agreement with the world’s power.
The attack threatens business-friendly efforts, the focus of tourism from Emirates, a seven Shekhdom federation on the Arabian Peninsula house for Dubai.
Over the years, the country has marketed itself as a safe angle of the reverse environment.
The video on social media shows the sky above Abu Dhabi lights up before dawn Monday, with what appears as the interceptor missile competes to the cloud to target the incoming fire.
Two explosions then roared in the city.
Video according to the known Abu Dhabi feature.
The Government’s managed WAM news agency said that missile fragments fell disrespectfully in Abu Dhabi.
Emirates’ is ready and ready to face threats and that it needs all steps needed to protect the country from all attacks, “WAM quoted the UAE defense ministry.
Fire missiles interfere with traffic to Abu Dhabi International Airport, home for long-distance bearers Haul Etihad, for about an hour after the attack.
A Houthi military spokesman did not immediately respond to questions from the Associated Press on Monday’s attack.
Mohammed Abdul-Salam, a Houthi spokesman, then tweeted: “ Yemen armed forces will reveal, in the coming hours, detailed military operations in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
“The US Embassy in Abu Dhabi then issued security beware of Americans living in the UAE, a warning resident for` `maintain a high level of security awareness.
” The warning includes instructions on how to deal with missile attacks, something that has never happened before in the UAE, a guest house to the skyscraper -studded Dubai and long operator.
The attack came a week after Houthi Yemeni rebels claimed the attack on the capital of Emirati who targeted the airport and the Abu Dhabi National Fuel Depot in the Mussafah environment.
The attack on the fuel depot killed three people and injured six others.
The new and high-resolution satellite photos obtained by AP from Planet Labs PBC showed repair work still took place at the fuel depot on Saturday.
Emirati officials have not released a picture of a site that is attacked, or permitted journalist to see it.
In the past few days, the coalition led by Saudi that UAE released air strikes targeting Yemen, knocking the poorest country in the Arab world on the internet and killing more than 80 people in the detention center.
Houthis has threatened to take revenge against Emirates and Saudi Arabia for the attack.
On Sunday, the Saudi coalition led said that a ballistic missile launched by Houthi landed in the industrial area in Jizan, Saudi Arabia, slightly injured strangers.
The Iranian Daily Newspaper Hard-Line Kayhan, the editor-in-chead designated by the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, only a week publishes the front page article quoting Houthi officials who will be attacked again with the main headline: “ Evacuate Emirati commercial tower.
” Newspapers in 2017 have faced a ban on publications two days after running the headlines that Dubai is the next ‘next target’ for Houthi.