Yemeni Houthi Rebels Launch Successive Strikes on Major Saudi Targets; Saudi-led Coalition Retaliates with Airstrikes

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels continued their offensive targeting major cities and core facilities in Saudi Arabia on October 24.

The Saudi-led coalition launched retaliatory airstrikes on the Yemeni capital of Sanaa shortly after intercepting the rebels' missiles.

According to foreign media outlets including Reuters and AFP, the Saudi-led coalition announced that it intercepted two ballistic missiles fired by Houthi rebels toward the western Saudi cities of Taif and Yanbu earlier that day.

Due to the ballistic missile launches by the Houthi rebels, temporary alerts were issued in Taif, Yanbu, the holy Islamic site of Mecca, and Saudi Arabia's second-largest city of Jeddah, but were lifted about 10 minutes later.

This attack occurred two days after the Houthi rebels claimed to have struck major Saudi infrastructure.

Previously, the Houthi rebels claimed to have attacked the Saudi Ministry of Defense in Riyadh, an Aramco facility in Yanbu, and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam.

Saudi authorities did not officially confirm the strikes in Riyadh and Yanbu, but announced that two people were killed in the attack on Dammam Airport.

Immediate counterattacks by the Saudi military followed.

Al-Masirah TV, operated by the Houthi rebels, reported that Saudi forces airstruck a residential area in the Asr district west of the rebel-controlled Yemeni capital of Sanaa on that day, killing at least four people and injuring several others.

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