{"id":609457,"date":"2026-09-08T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/609457\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T09:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:16:08","slug":"saudi-arabia-says-73-wounded-as-houthis-attack-civilian-and-energy-sites-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/609457\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia says 73 wounded as Houthis attack civilian and energy sites | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spokesman for Saudi-led coalition says Yemen\u2019s Houthis have hit civilian sites in Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jizan and Najran.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia has accused Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels of launching attacks on civilian and economic sites in the kingdom, wounding at least 73 civilians, including women and children.<\/p>\n

The accusation came on Tuesday as fighting intensified<\/a> in Yemen, where the Saudi-backed, internationally recognised government has launched a counteroffensive to retake territory from the Iran-backed Houthis.<\/p>\n

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Major-General Turki al-Maliki, the spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, said in a statement that the Houthi attacks had hit civilian and economic sites in the provinces of Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jizan and Najran.<\/p>\n

He did not specify when the attacks took place.<\/p>\n

Al-Maliki described the attacks as a \u201cdangerous escalation\u201d and a \u201cblatant violation\u201d of Saudi Arabia\u2019s sovereignty, warning that they posed a direct threat to the kingdom\u2019s citizens and residents.<\/p>\n

He said the coalition would take \u201call necessary operational measures\u201d to confront the attacks and act against the sources of the threat.<\/p>\n

The Saudi Ministry of Energy said in a separate statement that several \u201cenergy sector facilities and installations\u201d in southern areas of the kingdom were hit early on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The attacks wounded a \u201cnumber of citizens and residents\u201d and sparked \u201cfires at several locations\u201d, forcing a \u201ctemporary halt in some operations\u201d, the statement said.<\/p>\n

The Houthis released a statement later on Tuesday, saying the attacks were in response to more than 120 strikes launched by Saudi Arabia on Yemen in the last three days.<\/p>\n

\u201cYemeni armed forces carried out a large-scale, long-range military operation \u2026 using dozens of ballistic missiles and drones,\u201d the military\u2019s spokesman Yahya Saree said.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the group had accused<\/a> Saudi Arabia of carrying out an air strike on a prison in al-Hazm, in the northern al-Jawf governorate, killing at least seven people. It said the \u201congoing Saudi aggression against Yemen will not go unpunished\u201d.<\/p>\n

Riyadh has not commented on the allegation.<\/p>\n

Yemen has been mired in conflict since the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa in 2014, prompting a Saudi-led military intervention the following year.<\/p>\n

Fighting between the two sides largely halted after a United Nations-brokered truce in 2022, but resumed following the war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran in February.<\/p>\n

Hostilities restarted in July when the Houthis launched missiles and drones towards Saudi Arabia\u2019s Abha international airport, following an attack on Sanaa airport. Later that month, the Houthis announced a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia and began attacking Saudi-linked shipping in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Houthis launched a major offensive, attempting to advance through western Taiz and southern Hodeidah towards the port city of al-Makha (Mocha) along the Bab al-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

Fighting was initially concentrated west of Taiz and south of Hodeidah, but has now spread to the provinces of al-Dhalea, Marib, al-Jawf and al-Bayda, as the government seeks to stretch Houthi forces and increase pressure on the group.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization said some 1,078 people have been killed or wounded since August 24, while more than 21,000 people have been displaced since Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spokesman for Saudi-led coalition says Yemen\u2019s Houthis have hit civilian sites in Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jizan and Najran.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,47,43,78,40,38,41,39,2893],"class_list":["post-609457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}