{"id":4396,"date":"2026-11-14T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T05:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2026-11-14T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T05:03:55","slug":"houthis-claim-missile-attacks-on-saudi-forces-energy-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4396","title":{"rendered":"Houthis claim missile attacks on Saudi forces, energy infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Friday they had fired two \u200bballistic missiles at what they described as concentrations of Saudi \u200cforces in Al Tuwal in Jazan province, hours after Saudi civil defence issued an all-clear for the province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear whether the attack \u200bclaimed by the Houthis was related to the alerts \u200bissued by Saudi civil defence in Jazan earlier on \u2060Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Jazan is home to a Saudi Aramco refinery with \u200ba capacity of 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day.<\/p>\n<p>Southern \u200bSaudi Arabia, which borders Yemen, has come under repeated missile and drone attacks by the Houthis on military installations and energy infrastructure, including the Jazan \u200brefinery.<\/p>\n<p>The group also said in a separate statement that \u200bit had attacked Riyadh\u2019s King Khalid International Airport and a pumping station on \u200cSaudi \u2060Arabia\u2019s East-West Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate Saudi confirmation of the Houthi account.<\/p>\n<p>With the conflict in the Middle East disrupting oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, Riyadh has rerouted \u200babout 4 million \u200bbarrels per day \u2060of crude via the East-West Pipeline to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, equivalent to about \u200b4% of global supply.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting between the Houthis \u200band the \u2060coalition backing Yemen\u2019s internationally recognised government has intensified after the Houthis advanced in September towards the Bab El Mandeb Strait, a strategic shipping \u2060chokepoint \u200bat the southern entrance to the \u200bRed Sea, across the Arabian Peninsula from the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Friday they had fired two \u200bballistic missiles at what they described as concentrations of Saudi \u200cforces in Al Tuwal in Jazan province, hours after Saudi civil defence issued an all-clear for the province. It was not immediately clear whether the attack \u200bclaimed by the Houthis was related to the alerts \u200bissued by Saudi civil defence in Jazan earlier on \u2060Friday. Jazan is home to a Saudi Aramco refinery with \u200ba capacity of 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Southern \u200bSaudi Arabia, which borders Yemen,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}