Today, Thursday, the Saudi-led Arab coalition announced that its forces had destroyed a remote-controlled "bomb boat" belonging to the Houthis "before carrying out a devastating attack with it" in the southern Red Sea.

The coalition reported, according to Saudi official channel Al-Akbaria, that "a booby-trapped boat was destroyed before a close attack was carried out in the southern Red Sea," adding that it was launched by the "Houthi militia." From Hudida District.

So far, the statement said, "Arab coalition forces have destroyed a total of 99 booby-trapped boats, using which the Houthis have threatened naval civilian shipping lanes."

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia has been leading the Arab coalition, which is conducting intensive military operations in Yemen to support the internationally recognized Yemeni government loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, and which is fighting Iran-backed Houthi forces. Which has ruled the capital Sanaa since 2014.

Some 130,000 people, including more than 12,000 civilians, have been killed in a six-year conflict that, according to UN figures, has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis in a country that is one of the poorest in the Arab world.

Some 3.3 million people are still displaced, while 24.1 million people, more than two-thirds of Yemen's population, need assistance, according to the UN.