🪖🇾🇪From Aramco to Bab el-Mandeb: Latest Houthi-Saudi escalation in Yemen

Missile and drone exchanges and ground fighting continue on multiple fronts between Yemen’s Houthis and Saudi-backed forces, including near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Ansar Allah (Houthi) forces released footage showing clashes near the strategic chokepoint.

Key developments:

🌏 Saudi coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said its forces intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile near Medina; Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree denied that the movement had conducted any attacks on Saudi Arabia that day

🌏 Houthis claim ballistic/cruise missile and drone attacks on Aramco oil facilities in Dhahran, a refinery in Riyadh, and King Khalid International Airport in retaliation for Saudi strikes on oil storage site in Sanaa

🌏 Houthi strike caused limited fire in an administrative building at the Dhahran complex; areas near CEO Amin Nasser’s office suffered severe damage

🌏 In the capital Riyadh, debris from intercepted projectiles injured one person and caused property damage, according to Saudi Civil Defense

🌏 Ansar Allah forces struck a Saudi Typhoon fighter jet over Yemen’s Saada Governorate with a surface-to-air missile, military spokesman Yahya Saree announced

The UN World Food Program warns that fighting has cut off aid to more than 600,000 people in Taiz, where emergency-level hunger is rising.

👉 Broader Yemen figures show over 18 million facing acute food insecurity.

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