More than 10 civilians, including a four-year-old child, were injured in southern Saudi Arabia on Thursday in a series of attacks blamed on Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the Saudi military said. The attacks took place in Najran, near the Yemeni border, hours after the Iran-backed Houthis claimed responsibility for strikes in central and eastern Yemen that killed at least 30 government troops and wounded around 50 others, according to Yemeni officials.
Saudi military spokesman Turki al-Malki said the Najran attacks injured seven Saudi nationals, one Yemeni, two Egyptians and one Pakistani expatriate.
“The terrorist Houthi militia carried out these terrorist attacks using indiscriminate shelling against civilian objects, which is a flagrant violation of the Customary International Humanitarian Law through deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian objects,” al-Malki said in a post on X.
A Houthi leader said the group had targeted Saudi-backed forces in Yemen, claiming that “hundreds” had been killed or injured. Yemeni officials said the attacks struck camps belonging to forces of the internationally recognised government in Marib and Hadramout provinces. The Houthis did not immediately issue a statement on the reported civilian casualties in Saudi Arabia.