Sanaa, July 27 -- Amid the ongoing tensions, Yemen's Houthis on Monday issued a sharp rebuttal against Saudi Arabia, accusing it of attempting to "cover up the failure" after the nation said that it had intercepted multiple drones targeting its oil infrastructure.

In a post on X, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yemen's state news agency Saba Nasruddin Amer, cited a military source in the Ministry of Defense, who characterised the Saudi statements as a cover-up for air defence failures.

According to the source, the statements by the Saudi Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs were an attempt "to cover up the failure of its defensive systems in detecting and intercepting Yemeni drones that successfully achieved their targets...