{"id":618405,"date":"2026-09-17T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618405\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:04:09","slug":"saudi-arabia-strikes-yemen-as-conflict-with-iran-backed-houthis-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618405\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia strikes Yemen as conflict with Iran-backed Houthis escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia struck the Al-Barh bridge in southwestern Yemen early on Thursday morning, Ynet reported citing the Houthi-linked news channel Al-Masirah.<\/p>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-908730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">airstrikes<\/a> were carried out on the bridge, the reported said, adding that this was the second time Al-Barh had been targeted in the last two days.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Houthis claimed to have shot down a Saudi drone in the eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-908817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saudi Arabian<\/a> city of Haradh, Iranian state media Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting reported on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Saudi planes have carried out 40 airstrikes across Yemen in the last 24 hours, IRIB added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The strikes come amid escalating conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen\u2019s Houthis reported that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-908742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">downed an F-15<\/a> fighter jet belonging to the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) over Yemen\u2019s Marib Governorate, the Iran-backed terror group\u2019s military spokesperson Yahya Saree said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cThe fighter jet was downed using a locally manufactured surface-to-air missile (SAM),\u201d Saree explained, although he didn&#8217;t clarify when the alleged incident occured.<\/p>\n<p>Saree added that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-908825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houthis<\/a> were able to repel two formations of RSAF F-15s and Typhoon fighter jets searching for the F-15 wreckage, utilizing the same type of SAMs that downed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Houthi spokesperson also denied that the terror group had targeted Mecca in a drone strike, saying that &#8220;The fabrications and lies&#8230; cannot deceive anyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;There is no threat whatsoever from Yemen to the holy sites [Mecca and Medina],&#8221; he claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Saree&#8217;s statements referred to an incident on Tuesday when Saudi Arabia&#8217;s air defense systems intercepted a Houthi drone as it approached the restricted airspace over Mecca.<\/p>\n<p>James Genn contributed to this report.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia struck the Al-Barh bridge in southwestern Yemen early on Thursday morning, Ynet reported citing the Houthi-linked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4717,42,2895,8954,43,78,40,38,41,39,2893],"class_list":["post-618405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-airstrike","tag-headlines","tag-houthi","tag-houthis","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\/618405","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=618405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}