Yemen’s Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, warned on Wednesday that more attacks targeting Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities were coming following a strike that hit the headquarters of the Saudi state-owned oil giant Aramco in the eastern city of Dhahran.
Yahya Saree, spokesman for the Ansar Allah-led Yemeni Armed Forces, said that attacks also targeted the King Khalid International Airport and an Aramco refinery in Riyadh. The Ansar Allah strikes came after Saudi warplanes bombed an oil depot on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, which Yemeni officials said was empty, and a fuel port on the Red Sea in Yemen’s Hodeidah province, where two civilians were killed.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that their operations toward Saudi depths will continue in the coming days, targeting Saudi enemy airports and oil facilities, and their consequences will be severe for the enemy, by the permission and power of God,” Saree said in a statement on Telegram.
Saree also renewed the evacuation warning for Saudi airports and said that Ansar Allah would continue its “siege for siege” policy against Saudi Arabia. The war was reignited in July when Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s Sanaa International Airport to enforce a long-standing blockade that was eased as a result of a 2022 ceasefire deal but never fully lifted.
Saudi strikes continued to hit Yemen on Wednesday, and several civilian casualties were reported. Yemen’s SABA news agency reported that at least one woman was killed and four other civilians were wounded by Saudi airstrikes that hit the al-Shamayateen District in the southwestern Taiz Governorate.
“Over the past 24 hours, Saudi warplanes launched 42 airstrikes and missile attacks targeting civilian areas in the capital, Sana’a, and the governorates of Taiz, Lahj, Marib, Amran, and Mayyun Island. These attacks were carried out using F-15 and Typhoon aircraft that took off from the Khamis Mushait and Taif airbases, with missile strikes originating from Najran,” Saree said in a separate statement.
The Sanaa-based Yemeni Health Ministry said on Monday that since September 3, when the war escalated following the start of an Ansar Allah ground offensive, Saudi strikes have killed at least 107 civilians and wounded 278. The US is strongly backing the air campaign by providing intelligence support and refueling Saudi warplanes.
Fighting also continues on the ground in Yemen as Ansar Allah is encircling the city of Taiz, which has long been a stronghold of Saudi-backed Yemeni forces. The ground fighting has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians, and the war casualties have overwhelmed hospitals in Taiz and other parts of Yemen.
