Turki Al-Faisal: Patience has worn thin with the Houthi provocations

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The former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki Al-Faisal, said, "Saudi Arabia's sponsorship of Yemen's interests does not stop at the battlefields, adding: Our leadership has been patient, and its patience has been long, in the face of the repeated provocations of the Houthi group for several years, in order to avoid fighting.

He added in an article published in Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper: "When the situation reached its peak, the signs of liberating Yemen from the tyranny of this rogue faction emerged, and their forces quickly broke on the fronts, and President Alimi announced that the liberation of Sana'a is the demand, pointing out that Saudi Arabia has never been greedy for land in Yemen, nor has it sought to fight there, but rather, throughout the past years, it has not stopped calling for a peaceful solution that restores stability and security to Yemen and its people.

He went on to cite the speech of Saudi Crown Prince, Prime Minister, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in his annual royal address to the Saudi Shura Council, where he said, "Riyadh reaffirms its comprehensive support, through the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, to extend its authority over the entire country, restore stability, and confront the attacks of the Houthi terrorist militias that have chosen chaos and destruction, threatening the Yemeni people and the region as their path.

In a related context, the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen emphasizes that the Houthi attacks from the terrorist Houthi militia on civilian targets in the Kingdom, the latest of which was the targeting of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and Abha International Airport, "will not go unaccounted for."

Riyadh confirms that since the coup of the Houthi terrorist militia against the legitimate Yemeni government in 2014, it has made continuous and diligent efforts to support reaching a comprehensive and sustainable political solution in Yemen. However, the militia, continuing its approach of rejecting peace, has instead chosen ongoing military escalation, "dragging Yemen and the brotherly Yemeni people into further humanitarian and economic suffering in service of and in implementation of external agendas."