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UAE blocks missiles as Yemen’s Houthis attack region’s business hub

January 24, 2022

By Alexander Cornwell and Alaa Swilam

DUBAI (Reuters) -The United Arab Emirates, the tourism and commercial hub of the Gulf region, on Monday said it had foiled a second missile attack by Yemen’s Iranian-aligned Houthi movement group, which last week hit a fuel depot in Abu Dhabi, killing three people.

The Houthis, battling a Saudi-led coalition that includes the UAE, have said they aim to punish the UAE for backing militias that are blocking their attempts to capture oil-producing regions in Yemen.

The foreign ministry of the UAE, part of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), called the attack a “criminal escalation” and said it had a right to respond.

The Houthis have repeatedly carried out cross-border missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, but with their first attack on the UAE on Jan. 17 raised the stakes of a conflict https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/who-is-fighting-yemens-war-2021-12-07 largely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The UAE defence ministry said it had destroyed two ballistic missiles on Monday with no casualties.

The Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Sarea, said the group had fired Zulfiqar ballistic missiles at al-Dhafra airbase, used by U.S. forces, and other “sensitive targets”. He said it had also launched drones towards Dubai.

“We advise foreign companies and investors in the UAE to leave as it has become unsafe,” he said, adding the group was ready to “meet escalation with escalation”.

Air strikes on Yemen, which the coalition says are aimed at crippling Houthi capabilities, killed at least 60 people in Saada province on Friday, and about 20 people in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Tuesday.

The Emirati ambassador to Washington, Yousef al Otaiba, tweeted that close cooperation with the United States had helped to deflect the attack.

The U.S. embassy issued a rare security advisory for the UAE, urging its citizens to “maintain a high level of security awareness”.

A spokesperson for U.S. Air Forces in the Middle East said U.S. forces had “successfully reacted to multiple inbound threats during an attack near Abu Dhabi”.

RISK CALCULATIONS

“This is absolutely an escalation and changes the regional dynamic,” said Karen Young, director at the Middle East Institutes’ Economics and Energy Programme.

“The safety of the GCC now has risk calculations that approach what we know in other parts of the Middle East,” she said, citing potential risks to energy pipelines and production facilities as well as civil aviation.

Dubai’s main stock index closed down nearly 2%, while Abu Dhabi’s ended the day flat. Higher oil prices were providing support to markets, analysts said.

The attacks have rattled https://www.reuters.com/markets/stocks/houthi-attacks-rattle-some-united-arab-emirates-residents-2022-01-24 some Abu Dhabi residents.

“Overall I feel safe but I don’t know how it will escalate,” said 19-year-old American medical student Tahlia Rivera.

Spanish tourist Arabela Fernandez Rabena, 30, said she would not cut short her holiday, trusting UAE defence capabilities.

The UAE, which has an advanced anti-missile interception system, published a video of what it said was an F-16 warplane destroying a Houthi missile launcher in Yemen.

Otaiba renewed a call for U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration to restore the Houthis to the U.S. list of foreign terrorist groups, from which they were removed nearly a year ago as part of a bid to restart peace talks. Biden last week said the UAE request was under consideration.

The Houthis on Monday said they had also attacked Saudi Arabia, which reported material damage from remnants of an intercepted missile in a southern industrial area.

On Sunday night, a missile fell in another southern region, injuring https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-led-coalition-says-houthi-missile-fell-industrial-zone-2022-01-23 two foreigners.

The coalition intervened in March 2015 after the Houthis ousted the government from Sanaa. The group says it is fighting a corrupt system and foreign aggression.

(Additional reporting by Lilian Wagdy, Lisa Barrington and Saeed Azhar and Jonathan Landay and Phil Stewart in Washington; Writing by Ghaida Ghantous; Editing by Clarence Fernandez, Michael Perry, Kirsten Donovan, William Maclean and Kevin Liffey)

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