KSA Business: Airborne attacks target two Saudi oil facilities – Gulf Digital News

KSA Business: Airborne attacks target two Saudi oil facilities – Gulf Digital News

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Energy has said that two of its petroleum products distribution stations were targeted by airborne attacks yesterday (March 25) and warned that Kingdom will not be responsible for any shortage in oil supplies to the international markets if such attacks continued.



Global leaders condemned Yemen’s Houthi militia for the attack with the US implicating Iran for enabling the attack by supplying weapons to the group against international law.





“Unprovoked Houthi attacks against Saudi Aramco’s oil storage facilities in Jeddah as well as attacks against civil facilities in Jizan, Najran, and Dhahran are acts of terrorism aimed to prolong the suffering of the Yemeni people,” said Jake Sullivan, the US national security advisor.





US will help strengthen defences



Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US will work with the Kingdom to strengthen defences “while also seeking to advance a durable end to the conflict, improve lives, and create the space for Yemenis to determine their own future collectively.”





“At a time when the parties should be focused on de-escalation and bringing needed life-saving relief to the Yemeni people ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, the Houthis continue their destructive behaviour and reckless