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Iran-backed Houthi rebels announced Saturday they fired missiles and drones toward Saudi Arabia, claiming retaliation for Saudi attacks on Yemen’s coastal city of Hodeida.
Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the militant group’s spokesperson, said in a social media post that the Houthis executed two military operations “in response to this blatant and criminal aggression” from Saudi Arabia.
“The first targeted sensitive Aramco-affiliated facilities in Jizan with dozens of ballistic missiles and drones,” he continued. “And the second operation targeted sensitive Aramco-affiliated facilities in Yanbu with a number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones.”
“Both operations successfully achieved their objectives thanks to Allah Almighty, with accurate and direct strikes,” Saree added.
This is the latest in a series of attacks tied to critical shipping routes in the Middle East amid the U.S.-Iran conflict, spiking fears of a wider regional war.
The Yemen-based militant group’s actions against Saudi Arabia this week, including a maritime blockade and attacks on oil tankers, threaten to further disrupt oil markets already strained by the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz during crossfire between the U.S. and Iran.
After the Houthis attacked two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea on Thursday, international benchmark Brent crude oil jumped up to a future trading price of around $101 a barrel.
On Thursday, President Trump warned that his administration would “hold Iran responsible” for any attacks from the Houthis on ships.
“Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if they do this again, the U.S. will hold Iran responsible, in that the Houthis are a Surrogate and/or Proxy of Iran, and major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves, who I am very disappointed with in that they have, until now, acted very professionally and smart,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
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