RIYADH — The Arab Coalition forces on Thursday evening intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militia, targeting civilians in Jazan. The militia unsuccessfully targeted Jazan with a ballistic missile early in the day too. In a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency, the official spokesman of the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen Brig. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki said: “The Royal Saudi Air Force has intercepted and destroyed this evening (Thursday) a ballistic missile launched systematically and deliberately by the terrorist Houthi militia to target civilians and civilian facilities in Jazan.” “The terrorist Houthi militia is purposely escalating the deliberate, hostile, terrorist targeting of civilians and civilian objects using ballistic missiles and bomb-laden UAVs. These terrorist acts amount to war crimes,” the statement read. “The coalition forces will continue to implement all necessary operational procedures to safeguard civilians and civilian objects in accordance with the international humanitarian law,” Brig. Gen. Al-Maliki added in his statement.” On Tuesday, a military projectile launched by the Houthis militia fell in Jazan, injuring at least five civilians