Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis said they launched attacks on Saudi oil facilities and airports on Saturday, and the Saudi-led coalition fighting the group said it downed two missiles, as clashes between the two sides intensified, Reuters reported. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, an Aramco facility in Yanbu, the Rabigh oil refinery, crude oil pumping stations and the East-West Pipeline, Reuters reported. He also said the group targeted King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, an airport in Najran and an airbase in Khamis Mushait.

Source: Reuters, Oct 24, 2026 (updated 19:46 UTC)

In a statement carried by the Houthi-run Saba news agency at about 19:00 local time, Saree said the group had carried out 'seven operations', claimed every target was hit and that air traffic at Dammam was disrupted, according to a summary of the Saba statement by Defense and Tech. None of that has been independently verified. Saudi authorities did not comment directly on the Houthi statements, though they reported missile debris falling near the site of one of the purported oil targets, Reuters said. It was not immediately clear if any of the reported attacks had hit their targets in the kingdom or had been intercepted, Reuters said.

Source: Defense and Tech, summarising SPA and Saba, Oct 24, 2026

The Saudi-led coalition earlier said it destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by Houthis towards Yanbu and Taif, Reuters reported; in a separate announcement the same morning, the coalition said it had intercepted a ballistic missile launched towards Riyadh and a drone in the Eastern Province, AFP reported, citing coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki. Saudi Civil Defense said debris from intercepted missiles had fallen in the Mecca and Medina regions, Reuters reported. It said parts of the intercepted missiles fell in Wadi al-Mughammas in Mecca, while debris also fell in areas in Jeddah, Taif and Rabigh; the Civil Defense spokesman, quoted by the Saudi Press Agency, specified fragments in Jeddah's al-Nuzha district, Wadi Jalil in Taif and the Mastoura area of Rabigh governorate, Defense and Tech reported. It was not clear if the Rabigh debris was linked to the Houthis' reported targeting of the Rabigh oil refinery, Reuters said.

Source: Reuters, Oct 24, 2026 (updated 19:46 UTC)

Shortly after the debris reports, the Houthis denied that they attacked Mecca and Medina, saying that their operations 'target Saudi oil facilities and military bases', Reuters reported. Saree said the attacks were retaliation for what he described as 100 Saudi air strikes on Sanaa and other Houthi-held areas in the previous 24 hours, according to the Saba statement summarised by Defense and Tech — that strike count is the Houthis' claim, not an independently verified figure.

Source: Reuters, Oct 24, 2026 (updated 19:46 UTC)

The Health Ministry in Sanaa, which is run by the Houthis, said Saudi aircraft hit a house in the capital's Asr area, killing three people and injuring three, and in an update on Saturday evening said strikes on workers' housing at a cement factory in Hamdan district had killed eight people, including three women and four children, and injured 15, Defense and Tech reported, citing Saba. That is a total of 11 deaths claimed by the Sanaa ministry across the two sites. Defense and Tech said it had not seen a coalition statement on these reports, and the claims had not been independently verified at the time of publication.

Source: Defense and Tech, summarising SPA and Saba, Oct 24, 2026

Yanbu, on the Red Sea, is the western end of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, which allows the kingdom to export crude without sending it through the Strait of Hormuz, and Rabigh, on the same coast north of Jeddah, hosts a large refining complex — which is why even an unconfirmed claim against them matters for oil markets and for the lakhs of Indian and Punjabi workers across Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. The renewed fighting has shattered a 2022 UN-brokered truce that largely halted cross-border attacks, Reuters said, and the escalation has opened another front in the US-Israeli war on Iran. Sources: Reuters reporting Saree's statement, the coalition's intercepts and the Civil Defense debris reports; Defense and Tech summarising the Saudi Press Agency and Saba statements, including the Sanaa health ministry claims; AFP reporting the Riyadh intercept.

Source: Reuters, Oct 24, 2026 (updated 19:46 UTC)

The coalition's Saturday intercepts were reported earlier here: Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted Houthi missiles aimed at Riyadh, Taif and Yanbu