Saudi Cabinet: Kingdom Won’t Allow Its Security or Freedom of Navigation in the Red Sea and Bab El-Mandeb Strait to Be Imperiled

Riyadh, October 13 (QNA) – The Saudi Cabinet stressed today that the Kingdom was not going to accept any threat to its security or to freedom of maritime traffic in the Red Sea and the Bab Al Mandeb Strait.

This came during a cabinet session chaired, Tuesday by HH Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud. The Cabinet said that the Houthis would face the consequences of their crimes and repeated despicable attacks on the nation’s airports, Makkah, and Madinah, as well as civilian and economic facilities.

In this context, the Cabinet cited the military operations carried out by the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen to neutralize the threat posed by the Houthis and protect the Yemeni people, as well as global peace and security, the flow of global commerce, and international supply chains. (QNA)