The UAE shot down a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Ansar Allah fighters during a visit by Israel’s president, the latest attack to rattle the Middle East financial hub. Nobody was hurt in the early-hours attack, the third in consecutive weeks on the Gulf nation that is part of the coalition fighting the insurgents. “Air defence forces…intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Ansar Allah group at the UAE,” the ministry said, according to the official WAM news agency.
It said fragments of debris fell “outside of populated areas”, without giving further details. The ministry said it responded by destroying the missile launch site in Yemen’s northern Al Jawf region, releasing black-and-white footage of the explosion. The latest Ansar Allah missile was fired as Isaac Herzog makes the first visit to the UAE by an Israeli president, after the countries established diplomatic ties under the 2020 Abraham Accords. – AFP
