"The missile force announces the launching of a winged cruise missile ...
towards the al-Barakah nuclear reactor in Abu Dhabi," the Houthis' al-Masirah news website reported
on Sunday, without providing further details.
Yemeni media reported that the cruise missile had successfully hit the Barakah
nuclear reactor in Abu Dhabi.
Colonel Aziz Rashid, a spokesman for the Yemeni army, has told Lebanon's Al
Mayadeen TV channel that the missile attack was a political and military
response to the UAE's role in the destruction of Yemen. He insisted that the
missile had hit the intended target.
The United Arab Emirates' state-run news agency has, however, denied reports of
a Yemeni missile striking the under-construction nuclear plant. WAM said the UAE
has air-defense systems that can protect it against such threats.
Yemeni forces regularly fire ballistic missiles at positions inside Saudi Arabia
in retaliation for the Saudi-led war on Yemen.
Back in September, Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi warned that the UAE is no
longer a safe country as missiles manufactured by the Yemeni group can now hit
anywhere in the Arab country.
The leader of the Ansarullah movement says missiles produced and possessed by
the group can now hit anywhere in the United Arab Emirates.
The UAE has been a key ally of Saudi Arabia in its military campaign against
Yemen, which has killed over 12,000 people since March 2015.
The Emirati air force has played a significant part in the aerial assaults
against Yemen. In addition to deploying its own troops on Yemeni soil, Abu Dhabi
has been training pro-Saudi militants fighting on the ground against the Yemeni
army and its allied forces.
The country has also come under scrutiny for running secret prisons in Yemen,
where hundreds of inmates suffer mistreatment and torture.
Saudi Arabia and its allies launched the war in a bid to crush the Houthis and
reinstate the former Riyadh-friendly regime, but the kingdom has achieved
neither of its goals.
The protracted Saudi war, which has been accompanied by a land, naval, and
aerial blockade, has left over 17 million Yemenis in need of food and caused a
cholera epidemic.
Source:PRESSTV