Three Saudis killed in Houthi strikes as Yemen residents injured in explosions

SAUDI Arabia’s aviation authorities said today that attacks targeting Riyadh’s international airport and an aircraft there the previous day killed three Saudi citizens. The General Authority of Civil Aviation did not name those responsible, though the Houthis in neighbouring Yemen have claimed they targeted the airport with a ballistic missile. In Yemen, residents of Sanaa reported explosions overnight as intense fighting resumed between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces. One resident said the strikes were so powerful that their house shook and felt like the structure was collapsing on them. The Houthi-run Health Ministry said six people were injured, including a child. Yemeni government forces said on Monday they had reclaimed Taiz governorate’s Dhubab district and key positions near the Bab al-Mandeb strait. The Yemeni government said the “Dawn of Yemen” operation, backed by the Arab Coalition, continues. Fighting has cut key supply routes into the besieged city of Taiz, leaving residents struggling to afford food and fuel. Local authorities have restricted wheat sales to one bag per family. The UN says nearly 200,000 people have been displaced since August, with agencies reaching more than 126,000 people, though needs outstrip resources. On the Iranian front, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it struck a “giant LPG carrier named NV Sunshine” attempting to pass through an “illegal route” south of the Strait of Hormuz, causing a “massive fire in the engine room and propulsion system.” The IRGC later threatened that any vessel passing through an unauthorised passage “will be pursued throughout the region and its punishment will be definitive.” Meanwhile, Israeli air strikes were reported in southern Lebanon, on the outskirts of Kfar Tebnit in Nabatieh district and in al-Mansouri in Tyre district, whose residents have been repeatedly displaced.