Israel informed Saudi Arabia in advance of its attack on the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah on Sunday, with Riyadh allowing Israeli warplanes to pass through its airspace to bomb Ansarullah targets, Israeli Army Radio said Monday.
The radio station’s military correspondent, Doron Kadosh, said the Israeli fighter planes passed through “the Saudi airspace for a large part of their journey to Yemen”, according to Middle East Monitor.
Earlier on Sunday, the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the Israeli army had coordinated with Saudi Arabia to carry out its attack on Yemen and that the coordination included aerial refueling aircraft, in addition to flying at low altitudes to avoid radars.
However, the spokesperson of the Saudi Ministry of Defense, Brigadier General Turki Al-Maliki, denied his country’s involvement in the attack saying: “Saudi Arabia has no relationship or participation in targeting Hudaydah, and the kingdom will not allow its airspace to be infiltrated by any party.”
At least six people were killed and 83 others injured in Israeli air strikes on Hudaydah Port in western Yemen on Sunday, according to the Yemeni Health Ministry.
Israel claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying it was a “direct response” to a drone strike launched by the Ansarullah movement on Tel Aviv on Friday, which killed an Israeli and injured ten others.
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