<p>Houthi fire from Yemen this month on the UAE, traditionally a haven of security in a turbulent Middle East, stirred alarm at home and abroad, but for many Saudis it's nothing new.</p>.<p>In the Jizan region of southwestern Saudi Arabia, the local population has had to live for years with the threat of sometimes deadly cross-border fire by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.</p>.<p>Saudi defences have intercepted most of the Houthi missiles and drones targeting airports and oil infrastructure in retaliation for air strikes since 2015 in support of Yemen's embattled government by a Saudi-led Arab military coalition.</p>.<p>But the ones that made it through have caused casualties and damage.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/us-calls-for-de-escalation-of-saudi-houthi-conflict-in-yemen-1073440.html" target="_blank">US calls for de-escalation of Saudi-Houthi conflict in Yemen</a></strong></p>.<p>"The first two or three times it was strange because that kind of thing doesn't happen in Saudi Arabia. But it's become a normal thing," said a Jizan resident, a woman in her 30s clad in a black abaya robe, asking not to be named due to the sensitivity of the subject inside the conservative Gulf kingdom.</p>.<p>Thunderous blasts have "rocked the house", she told AFP. "After our scare from the noise, we return to our normal lives as if nothing happened."</p>.<p>Two people were killed and seven wounded in late December in the first deadly Houthi-claimed strike in more than three years on Jizan, the most frequent target of attacks inside the oil-rich country.</p>.<p>Jizan remains a tranquil Red Sea coastal region where families picnic on the beach as children play in the sand.</p>.<p>"With time we've learnt to sleep peacefully," said a young man from behind the wheel of his car waiting in line outside a drive-through fast-food joint.</p>.<p>On the wall of a nearby building, giant portraits of King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, architect of the Saudi intervention in Yemen's war, proclaim: "God, keep this country in security".</p>.<p>Last month, coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki announced that the Houthis have fired more than 400 ballistic missiles and launched over 850 attack drones at Saudi Arabia over the past seven years, killing a total of 59 civilians.</p>.<p>"There's no reason to be afraid, the army is on guard 24 hours a day and our military equipment is ready," said another Jizan resident.</p>.<p>In Al-Dayer, a town in Jizan province separated from the border with Yemen by a mountain chain, Houthi attacks have not deterred young men in pickups from wadi-bashing amid the sand dunes.</p>.<p>As tit-for-tat attacks took another grim turn last week, the UN and NGOs accused the anti-Houthi coalition of having killed at least 70 people in an air raid that pulverised a detention centre in the Houthi heartland of Saada in northern Yemen.</p>.<p>In a surprise escalation in the United Arab Emirates, three oil workers were killed in a drone-and-missile assault on Abu Dhabi on January 17.</p>.<p>In Yemen's seven years of conflict, more than 150,000 people have been directly killed by fighting and millions displaced, according to the United Nations, which calls it the world's worst humanitarian crisis.</p>.<p><strong>Check out DH's latest videos:</strong></p>
<p>Houthi fire from Yemen this month on the UAE, traditionally a haven of security in a turbulent Middle East, stirred alarm at home and abroad, but for many Saudis it's nothing new.</p>.<p>In the Jizan region of southwestern Saudi Arabia, the local population has had to live for years with the threat of sometimes deadly cross-border fire by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.</p>.<p>Saudi defences have intercepted most of the Houthi missiles and drones targeting airports and oil infrastructure in retaliation for air strikes since 2015 in support of Yemen's embattled government by a Saudi-led Arab military coalition.</p>.<p>But the ones that made it through have caused casualties and damage.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/us-calls-for-de-escalation-of-saudi-houthi-conflict-in-yemen-1073440.html" target="_blank">US calls for de-escalation of Saudi-Houthi conflict in Yemen</a></strong></p>.<p>"The first two or three times it was strange because that kind of thing doesn't happen in Saudi Arabia. But it's become a normal thing," said a Jizan resident, a woman in her 30s clad in a black abaya robe, asking not to be named due to the sensitivity of the subject inside the conservative Gulf kingdom.</p>.<p>Thunderous blasts have "rocked the house", she told AFP. "After our scare from the noise, we return to our normal lives as if nothing happened."</p>.<p>Two people were killed and seven wounded in late December in the first deadly Houthi-claimed strike in more than three years on Jizan, the most frequent target of attacks inside the oil-rich country.</p>.<p>Jizan remains a tranquil Red Sea coastal region where families picnic on the beach as children play in the sand.</p>.<p>"With time we've learnt to sleep peacefully," said a young man from behind the wheel of his car waiting in line outside a drive-through fast-food joint.</p>.<p>On the wall of a nearby building, giant portraits of King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, architect of the Saudi intervention in Yemen's war, proclaim: "God, keep this country in security".</p>.<p>Last month, coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki announced that the Houthis have fired more than 400 ballistic missiles and launched over 850 attack drones at Saudi Arabia over the past seven years, killing a total of 59 civilians.</p>.<p>"There's no reason to be afraid, the army is on guard 24 hours a day and our military equipment is ready," said another Jizan resident.</p>.<p>In Al-Dayer, a town in Jizan province separated from the border with Yemen by a mountain chain, Houthi attacks have not deterred young men in pickups from wadi-bashing amid the sand dunes.</p>.<p>As tit-for-tat attacks took another grim turn last week, the UN and NGOs accused the anti-Houthi coalition of having killed at least 70 people in an air raid that pulverised a detention centre in the Houthi heartland of Saada in northern Yemen.</p>.<p>In a surprise escalation in the United Arab Emirates, three oil workers were killed in a drone-and-missile assault on Abu Dhabi on January 17.</p>.<p>In Yemen's seven years of conflict, more than 150,000 people have been directly killed by fighting and millions displaced, according to the United Nations, which calls it the world's worst humanitarian crisis.</p>.<p><strong>Check out DH's latest videos:</strong></p>