Houthi rebels claim missile strike on Saudi city Jizan after Saudi air raids on Yemen
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Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed a missile strike on Saudi Arabia on Saturday, hours after vowing to retaliate for Saudi air strikes on military targets in Yemen the previous day.
The Houthis' Ansarollah media said a "Yemeni missile strike" sparked fires in the southern Saudi city of Jizan. Saudi Arabia did not immediately comment on the claim, but Riyadh's civil defense agency issued and quickly lifted warnings for Jizan and Yanbu.
The escalation followed Saudi strikes on Friday against Houthi military sites in Hodeida, including a naval base at Ras al-Kathib, a military camp on Kamaran island, and a telecommunications building near the port, according to a Yemeni security source. Houthi media said two civilians were wounded.
Riyadh said it had targeted sites threatening commercial shipping after the Yemeni rebels announced a blockade of Saudi shipping and attacked vessels in the Red Sea. On July 20, the Houthis warned that they would target ships "belonging to (the) Saudi enemy" that ignored the blockade. Earlier this week, they claimed attacks on two Saudi ships. On Friday, Saudi Arabia confirmed one Saudi-owned vessel, NCC MASA, sustained minor hull damage in the Red Sea but continued its voyage.
Meanwhile, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces struck a tanker early on Saturday attempting to reach an Iranian port in violation of the US blockade of the country's ports. Spokesman Captain Tim Hawkins said the tanker was struck after attempting to evade the blockade multiple times.
The Houthis accused Saudi Arabia of a "dangerous escalation" and said its actions "will not go unanswered." The Saudi-led coalition said it had carried out strikes in Yemen in response to an attack on a Saudi-flagged ship. Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said the strikes targeted "legitimate military objectives" belonging to the Houthi militia in the Yemeni province of Hodeidah linked to threats against shipping in the Red Sea.
Media outlets aligned with the Houthis reported airstrikes in the port city of Hodeidah. Reports indicated that the state-owned telecommunications company in Hodeidah and Kamaran Island had been hit. Iranian state broadcaster Press TV reported Houthi counterattacks in Saudi Arabia followed, including explosions in the port city of Yanbu. The coastal city of Jazan was also reportedly attacked with rockets. The claims could not initially be independently verified.
The flare-up marks a new front of the war that has engulfed the region following US-Israeli strikes on Tehran in February, and comes on top of Iran's parallel blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Riyadh's only other maritime route.
A Yemeni security source told AFP that a naval base in the Yemen port city of Hodeida and a military camp on Kamaran island were among the Saudi targets hit, which prompted the claimed Houthis’ reprisal attack. The Saudi-led coalition said it hit Houthi sites and destroyed targets that were threatening commercial vessels, in response to attacks on Red Sea shipping.
The tit-for-tat strikes came after the Houthis claimed attacks on two Saudi ships this week, with Saudi Arabia confirming one of the attacks in the Red Sea. “The terrorist Houthi military … targeted commercial ships in the Red Sea,” Turki al-Maliki, the Saudi-led coalition’s spokesperson, said on X. The coalition “carried out a decisive and strong response” targeting Houthi military sites used to threaten Red Sea shipping and that the “military response is now over”, he added.
Earlier, Donald Trump said he had not decided on whether to launch major strikes on Iran yet, as Tehran was now getting “serious” in talks with Washington. His comments came after reports that an increasingly frustrated Trump was meeting senior advisers to discuss launching a large-scale military operation against Iran. The New York Times reported earlier that Trump had met advisers on Friday, while the Axios news outlet quoted the US leader as saying on Thursday that he was considering a “massive attack” on Iran.
The escalation has sparked concerns about oil supplies, with Saudi Arabia increasingly reliant on Red Sea export routes with the war in Iran disrupting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The latest exchange also raises the prospect of renewed cross-border fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis, jeopardizing a de facto cease-fire that has largely held since a UN-brokered truce between the Houthis and Yemen's internationally recognized government expired in October 2022.
Saudi Arabia has backed Yemen's government against the Houthis since leading a military intervention in 2015, although cross-border hostilities have largely subsided in recent years.
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