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Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group reported a series of Saudi airstrikes on Tuesday, hours after it claimed large-scale missile and drone attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities and a Saudi airbase.
Four Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit Yemen’s northeastern Marib province, targeting Al-Jubah district in the southern part of the oil-rich province, with no casualties or damage immediately reported.
Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV further reported a series of Saudi raids on the Al-Waziyah district in Taiz province, where fighting had raged for days, as well as Saudi artillery shelling of residential villages in Saada’s Razih district.
Saudi Arabia had not immediately commented on the reported strikes.
Earlier Tuesday, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said the group had launched dozens of ballistic missiles and drones at Saudi Aramco facilities in Abha, Najran and Jazan, as well as King Khalid Air Base near Khamis Mushait.
Sarea claimed the attacks scored direct and accurate hits and caused major damage, while warning that Houthi operations would continue "deep inside Saudi territory."
Saudi authorities reported that the Houthi attacks targeted civilian and economic facilities in Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran, injuring 73 people, including women and children. Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry said fires broke out and operations at some energy facilities were temporarily halted.
The affected infrastructure included the Jazan refinery, a Saudi Aramco facility designed to process up to 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
In a post on X, Al-Masirah shared satellite images showing large columns of black smoke rising from the Aramco refinery and distribution station in Jizan, as well as the distribution station in Abha.
The escalation came as fighting between Yemen’s government forces and the Houthis widened across the country, with clashes intensifying in Al-Jawf, Taiz and Al-Bayda and spreading toward strategic areas near the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
Government forces said Tuesday they had retaken Al-Yatmah in northern Al-Jawf, as they pushed to regain territory from the Houthis on several fronts. The fighting also continued in western Yemen, where more than 60 people were reported killed in recent clashes, including 26 government troops, 31 Houthi fighters, and six civilians, according to recent reporting.
The World Health Organization said at least 728 people had been killed or wounded since Aug. 23, with most casualties recorded in Taiz and along Yemen’s western coast. About 21,000 people, or roughly 3,000 families, had also been displaced from Taiz alone since Thursday as fighting intensified.
The latest fighting marks the most serious escalation since a U.N.-brokered truce largely halted large-scale hostilities in 2022. Government forces have expanded operations across Al-Jawf, Al-Bayda, Taiz and Hodeidah, while the Houthis have sought to advance toward the western coast and the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a key shipping route connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden.
Yemen’s conflict began in 2014, when the Houthis seized Sanaa after months of political turmoil.
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