UAE intercepts Houthi missile as Israeli president visits – By Al Jazeera and News Agencies (Al Jazeera) / January 31, 2022
Iran-backed Houthis say they plan new military operation inside UAE as seven-year-long conflict in Yemen deepens.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) says it has intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Yemen as the Gulf state hosted Isaac Herzog on the first-ever visit to the country by an Israeli president.
The UAE’s defence ministry said on Monday the debris of the missile fell on an uninhabited area. It did not say whether the missile was targeting the UAE’s capital Abu Dhabi or Dubai.
The country’s civil aviation authority said air traffic was continuing as usual, and all flight operations were operating normally despite the attack, the state news agency (WAM) reported.
The Emirati ministry of defense said in a post on Twitter that it had destructed a launch site for one of the missiles that landed on the UAE. It did not give further information about the exact location of the site.
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