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Yemen's Houthi movement said Thursday that its forces struck the Saudi Aramco refinery in the Jizan region with two drones, the latest in a series of claimed attacks on the Saudi facility, which has been shut down since late July.
A military source told the Houthi-run Saba news agency that Yemeni armed forces "targeted the Aramco refinery in the Jizan region using two drones, and the strike was precise."
Saudi authorities had not commented on the claim as of Thursday evening.
The source said the operation was carried out in response to what the Houthis described as Saudi drone incursions into Yemeni airspace over Saada and Hajjah, two northern provinces under Houthi control along the border with Saudi Arabia.
The wording of Thursday's claim closely mirrored language the group has used in previous statements about the refinery.
The source added that Houthi forces would keep responding to any perceived breach of Yemeni sovereignty, saying the armed forces "will continue, with the help of God Almighty, to carry out their duties by responding decisively to any breach of our country's sovereignty or any aggression targeting our country and our faithful, struggling people."
Thursday's claim comes with the 400,000-barrel-a-day Jizan refinery already out of service. Saudi Aramco shut the plant down after an attack in late July damaged its integrated gasification combined-cycle complex and tank farm area, and the facility's restart, initially expected around mid-August, has since been pushed back to around the end of the month, according to industry monitors.
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