The recent Houthi attacks on Saudi civilian airports, which have left a number of people dead or injured and caused the temporary closures of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, were intended by the Houthis to create a sense of discontent and panic among citizens and residents of the Kingdom. They hoped to use this to pressure the government and prompt it to cease its involvement in the military operations of the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, thus stopping it striking Houthi targets inside Yemen.

Anyone observing the situation in Saudi Arabia calmly and objectively will find that the result was precisely the opposite of what the Houthis intended. The Saudi people regarded these acts as a direct attack against them and viewed them as terrorist operations, no different from those previously carried out by extremist organizations such as Al-Qaeda and Daesh. Instead of public demands for the government to stop supporting the legitimate government in Yemen, numerous voices spontaneously emerged in support of the official stance, declaring their readiness to defend the homeland and pay the price, however high, in order to neutralize the threat posed by the Houthis and permanently, rather than temporarily, put an end to the harm they inflict on the Kingdom.

The attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh brought to prominence the name of Abeer Abdullah Al-Ajmi, an airport employee who, rather than fleeing from the force of the explosion, remained calm and began helping and guiding people. This made her a national icon, with the local press and thousands of users across various........

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