Wire reporting: (Reuters, via KSL)

Yemen's Houthi movement said Saturday it attacked oil facilities and airports in Saudi Arabia, while Yemen's internationally recognized government said missiles also struck sites in Aden, including coast-guard buildings and, in one account, the city's airport^1,2.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, an Aramco facility in Yanbu, the Rabigh oil refinery, crude pumping stations, the East-West Pipeline, King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, an airport in Najran and an airbase in Khamis Mushait, according to a Reuters account carried by KSL¹.

The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed two ballistic missiles fired toward Yanbu and Taif¹. Saudi Civil Defense said debris from intercepted missiles fell in the Mecca and Medina regions, including Wadi al-Mughammas in Mecca and areas of Jeddah, Taif and Rabigh¹. It was not immediately clear whether any of the claimed attacks hit their intended targets in the kingdom¹.

Saudi Arabia's civil defense said on X that the Houthis had launched two ballistic missiles toward Mecca and Medina and warned of falling shrapnel after interception, Al Jazeera reported². The Houthis denied attacking Mecca and Medina, saying their operations targeted oil facilities, military bases, airports and an airbase^1,2.

In southern Yemen, the Interior Ministry of the internationally recognized government said two missiles struck a coast-guard headquarters and a third hit a coast-guard building in Aden's Tawahi district¹. Al Jazeera said the Transport Ministry denounced targeting of Aden International Airport with two ballistic missiles, calling it the fourth such attack this month, and warned of a threat to civil aviation². Saree said Houthi forces targeted what he called Al-Nasr camp and a naval base in Aden; the coalition had no immediate comment on that claim^1,2.

Saudi authorities did not comment directly on the Houthi statements beyond reporting debris and earlier brief civil-defense alerts for Taif, Yanbu, Mecca and Jeddah that were later lifted, the Reuters account said¹. Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi condemned the attacks in a statement cited by Al Jazeera².

Al Jazeera also reported unverified Houthi-run television claims of Saudi coalition air strikes in Sanaa and Hodeidah, and Yemeni army claims of Houthi missile malfunctions and of hundreds of government targeting operations; those figures were not independently confirmed². A 2022 U.N.-brokered truce had largely halted cross-border attacks until fighting resumed this year^1,2.

Sources

1. (Reuters, via KSL)Houthis say they targeted Saudi oil sites; attacks reported in AdenOct 24, 8:45 PM
2. Al JazeeraHouthis launch attacks on Saudi Arabia and Yemen's AdenOct 24, 5:30 PM

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