An intelligence source told Sheba Intelligence that a missile fuel store belonging to the Houthi group in the Attan Mountain in the capital, Sana'a, was deliberately blown up from within, ruling out that an airstrike caused the explosion.
The source added, "Exploding the missile fuel store possibly resulted from an intelligence operation planned by external parties or as a result of Houthi-Houthi internal disputes."
However, a military expert and analyst indicated that the video that showed the explosion demonstrates two scenarios, all of which confirm the targeting of weapons stores in the depths of the mountain.
He added, "The first scenario is a directed strike with a missile or a smart bomb that penetrates the mountains or a plotted explosion that took place inside the store in the mountain."
The expert pointed out that the color of the white smoke indicates that the strike was directed at a store that may contain rockets' solid fuel or chemical materials.
The expert said the height of the flame reached more than ten meters, and the diameter of the flame was more than 15 meters, which confirms the presence of chemical materials at the site of the explosion.
The military expert doubted the Houthi group's story that said the explosion was caused by the detonation of war remnants. He said, "If that were the case, we would have seen in the video the flying remnants and the black color of the rising smoke. However, what we saw was white smoke rising from a hole in the mountain."
The expert explained that the mountains surrounding Sanaa are military zones that contain weapons depots and are not suitable for military experiments or detonating war remnants as the Houthis claim.
Today's massive explosion was preceded by reports of possible strikes by international forces against the Houthi group in Sanaa and its surroundings in response to the group's continued strike missiles at Israel and their attacks on ships in the Red Sea.
On November 21, Intelligence sources told Sheba Intelligence that an imminent strike by international forces, possibly American, would be carried out if the Houthis did not release the Israeli-linked ship Galaxy Leader that was seized on November 19. The source said the strike may hit important Houthi military sites inside and around the capital, Sana'a, in addition to the naval operations rooms in the coastal areas, especially in the ports of Al-Hudaydah, Al-Salif, Al-Luhaya, and Kamaran Island.