{"id":6752,"date":"2016-10-30T05:06:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T05:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/?p=6752"},"modified":"2016-10-30T05:06:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T05:06:03","slug":"saudi-arabia-shoots-down-houthi-missile-headed-towards-mecca-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2016\/10\/30\/6752\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia shoots down Houthi missile headed towards Mecca: Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yemeni rebels have launched one of their longest-range strikes against Saudi Arabia, firing a ballistic missile that was shot down near Mecca, the Saudi-led coalition fighting them said on Friday.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe coalition has been carrying out a bombing campaign against the rebels since March last year and there have been strikes towards the bases from which the raids have been mounted.<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia has deployed Patriot missiles to intercept the rebel fire.<br \/>\nHouthi rebels launched the missile &#8220;toward the Mecca area&#8221; on Thursday evening from their Saada province stronghold just across the border, a coalition statement said.<br \/>\n&#8220;The air defence was able to intercept and destroyed it about 65 kilometres (40 miles) from Mecca without any damage.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe rebel Sabanews website said they fired a ballistic missile towards King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, west of Mecca.<br \/>\nMecca lies more than 500 kilometres (more than 300 miles) from the border.<br \/>\nIt is the second time this month that the rebels have fired a missile of that range.<br \/>\nOn 9 October, the coalition said it had intercepted a missile near Taif, the site of a Saudi airbase some 65 kilometres from Mecca.<br \/>\nThat launch came the day after a coalition air strike killed more than 140 people attending a wake for the father of a rebel leader in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, prompting threats of revenge.<br \/>\nIn a separate incident on Thursday, rebel fire hit a two-storey residential building in the Saudi border district of Jazan but there were no casualties, the civil defence agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><strong>middleeasteye<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemeni rebels have launched one of their longest-range strikes against Saudi Arabia, firing a ballistic missile that was shot down near Mecca, the Saudi-led coalition fighting them said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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