According to Reuters, Saudi Arabia has intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Yemen and a Saudi-led military coalition said in a statement late on Monday it may be forced to reconsider a truce that has been place since April.
Saudi state news agency SPA quoted the statement as saying that the missile, the second such strike this month, was destroyed in mid-air without causing any casualties. The air force also destroyed the platform from which the missile was fired, it said.
Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of Arab states, intervened in Yemen in March last year mainly with air strikes to try to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The Houthis and Yemen’s Saudi-backed government are currently engaged in peace talks in Kuwait aimed at ending the 14-month-old war and easing a humanitarian crisis in the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country.
The U.N.-sponsored talks have so far yielded few results.
SPA gave no details on the target or the type of missile used. However, the agency said the Saudi-led coalition warned it would not sit idle against any further violations of the truce, which began on April 10.
“The coalition command, through this statement, assert that violating the truce by the Houthi militia and its supporters and the targeting of the kingdom’s lands … would force the coalition to reconsider the feasibility of this policy (of self restraint),” SPA said.
Saudi Arabia said on May 9 it had also intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Yemen before it reached its target.
 Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Tuesday, the command of the alliance to support legitimacy in Yemen said that the repetition of the firing of missile towards the territories of the kingdom by the Houthi militias and the forces of the ousted aims at ending the state of calm and aborting the international community’s efforts to ensure the success of the Kuwait consultations.
Such acts also express failure by these militias to deal positively with all the efforts being made by the coalition and the international community to save the blood of the brotherly people of Yemen, it said.
The command of the alliance stressed that the repeated violations of the ceasefire by the Houthis and their associates, targeting the territories of the kingdom and their continued irresponsible practice – despite the policy of restraint followed since the tenth of last April – will force the alliance to reconsider the feasibility of continuing that policy.
The command also warned that it will take all necessary measures to defend the sovereignty and territories of the kingdom and defend the gains of the people of Yemen in the framework of Operation Renewal of Hope.
Source: Reuters, Asharq Al-Awsat English, 31 May 2016