Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed an attack in Abu Dhabi that caused fires and resulted in three fuel tanker explosions near state oil firm ADNOC’s storage facilities.
There are"no significant damages resulting from the two accidents" and an investigation has been launched, the statement added.
A spokesman for Yemen's Houthi movement, which since 2015 has been at war with a Saudi-led coalition that includes the UAE, said that its militants have launched a military operation in the Gulf sheikhdom and that it would reveal more details in the hours to come, according to Reuters. The UAE largely withdrew from Yemen in 2019, roughly four years into a bloody war that has plunged the Middle East's poorest country into mass starvation and fueled the proxy fighting between Saudi Arabia and its regional adversary Iran, which backs the Houthis with funding and weapons.
Abu Dhabi still carries significant influence among Yemeni forces it has armed and trained to combat the Houthis, who in 2014 forced out Yemen's Saudi-backed government led by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. The Houthis have carried out hundreds of cross-border missile and drone attacks into Saudi Arabia in the years since Riyadh launched its aerial assault on Yemen, which has killed tens of thousands of Yemenis.
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