Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia injure 73 as coalition vows firm response

On Saturday, Iranian-backed Houthi militants launched an attack on the Saudi port city of Jizan, resulting in the injuries of two individuals and causing significant material damage to a mosque, several buildings, and vehicles. Jizan is situated on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast, approximately 50 kilometers north of the Houthi-controlled region in Yemen.

The attack also prompted Saudi Arabia's Civil Defense Agency to issue an emergency alert for the cities of Abha and Khamis Mushait, located 110 kilometers away from the border with the Houthi-controlled part of Yemen. However, the danger has since been declared over.

Earlier that day, the Israeli military disclosed that a soldier had been found guilty of violating IDF rules of engagement after being filmed shooting a Palestinian man in the leg for no apparent reason in the northern West Bank village of Faqqu a. Footage shows an IDF soldier, accompanied by Israeli settlers, aiming his rifle at a group of Palestinian men in an agricultural field before opening fire and hitting one individual.

The incident occurred during a settler incursion onto land belonging to the village of Faqqu a, near Jenin in the seam zone.

In the meantime, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi during a BRICS summit in New Delhi, indicating a potential thaw in relations between Iran and the UAE, which have been divided by the ongoing war. Iran has vowed to maintain its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz until the United States agrees to its demands, according to a Tasnim agency report citing a source close to Tehran's negotiating team in talks with Oman.