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Iran-backed Houthis claim missile attack on Saudi Arabia as Middle East war widens
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed a missile attack on the southern Saudi city of Jizan on Saturday, after vowing retaliation against the kingdom for attacks this week.
It came after US ally Riyadh struck Houthi military targets on Friday, following the Yemeni group announcing a maritime blockade of the top oil producer and hitting its ships in the Red Sea.
The rebels accused Saudi Arabia of a “dangerous escalation” and said its actions “will not go unanswered”.
The flare-up marks a new front of the war that has engulfed the region, and comes on top of Iran’s parallel blockade of the strait of Hormuz, Riyadh’s only other maritime route.
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A Yemeni security source told Agence France-Presse that a naval base in the Yemen port city of Hodeida and a military camp on Kamaran island were among the Saudi targets hit, which prompted the claimed Houthis’ reprisal attack.
The Saudi-led coalition said it hit Houthi sites and destroyed targets that were threatening commercial vessels, in response to attacks on Red Sea shipping.