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Ansarullah warns Saudi airspace dangerous for flights after airstrikes on Yemen’s capital
Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement warned airlines on Monday that Saudi airspace was unsafe for civilian flights following deadly Saudi airstrikes on Yemen’s capital, Sana’a.
Saudi Arabia continued its military operations in Yemen on Monday, killing at least one person and wounding two others as tensions between the two sides continue to escalate.
Ansarullah movement said that Saudi airstrikes killed a woman student and wounded two others in the Bani Hashish area in Sana’a governorate. The group said the strikes also hit the Saada region.
The resistance movement warned airlines that Saudi airspace "is not safe" and "will be the theatre of operations of our armed forces" after the Saudi-led coalition said it had joined a counteroffensive announced by Yemen's Saudi-backed government in south.
Ansarullah’s maritime coordination body said the kingdom’s airspace would not be safe as long as Saudi’s “aggression” continued.
Also on Monday, Yemen's Saudi-backed forces supported by Saudi jets attacked Ansarullah’s targets as they launched an ambitious campaign to recapture all territory from the resistance group after its recent lightning gains.
The Saudi-backed military said it carried out more than 1,000 strikes, while 100 warplanes attacked at dawn, according to the Saudi-led coalition.
Yemen's Saudi-backed government on Sunday announced the goal of retaking all territory captured by Ansarullah’s resistance group for more than a decade.
Last month Ansarullah seized swathes of coastline along the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab strait, a chokepoint for oil and cargo shipping.
As the offensive began, a source in the Saudi energy sector told AFP that an attack on Sunday had again halted pumping in the East-West pipeline to the Red Sea, a key conduit since Iran blockaded the Strait of Hormuz.
The long-running conflict in Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries and neighbor of Saudi Arabia, has flared anew months into the Middle East war that has sent crude prices soaring.
Saudi Aramco chief executive Amin Nasser warned on Monday that global oil stockpiles are "scarily thin" owing to the US-Iran war, days after G7 nations agreed to release more of their inventories to ease supply concerns.
The Ansarullah’s forces have targeted Saudi oil infrastructure and tankers in the Red Sea since a ceasefire in Yemen's war unraveled in July.
The group has accused the Saudi-led coalition of carrying out hundreds of strikes.
Ansarullah controls most of northwest Yemen including capital Sana’a.
The Saudi-backed forces, based in the city of Aden, controls much of the country's south and east – a region that is larger but less populated.