Houthi Attack on Saudi Arabia Wounds 11 Civilians as Kingdom Warns of Imminent Coordinated Strikes

A Houthi attack struck civilian areas in Saudi Arabia's southern Najran border province late Thursday, wounding 11 people, according to the Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen's government 123. Coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki said the wounded included seven Saudi nationals, one Yemeni, two Egyptians and one Pakistani, among them a woman and a four-year-old child who suffered second-degree burns 124. Al-Malki said projectiles were fired indiscriminately at civilian areas and accused the Houthis of deliberately targeting civilians and infrastructure in violation of international humanitarian law 4. The Najran strike followed a separate Houthi missile and drone assault on Yemeni government military camps in Marib and Hadramout the same day, which local sources cited by AFP said killed at least 58 soldiers, the deadliest such attack on government forces since 2022 4. Saudi officials separately warned that coordinated attacks by the Houthis and Iran-backed Iraqi militias were imminent 1.