Saudi Arabia says 2 airports were hit in renewed fighting with Houthis
and other Mideast news
[October 07, 2026]
Saudi Arabia said three people were injured in the latest attacks on its
airports since fighting with Yemen’s Houthi rebels reignited. Meanwhile,
Palestinian officials said Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City killed two
people, while condemning home demolitions in east Jerusalem and violence
in the occupied West Bank.
Israelis are readying to mark the third anniversary of the Palestinian
militant Hamas group’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack as conflict in the Middle
East has spread to include Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Tuesday. Full coverage
is available here.
Saudis say 2 airports were hit
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said airports in the
cities of Najran and Jizan were hit on Monday, damaging both facilities
and leaving three lightly injured. The statement didn't say who was
responsible, but followed an announcement by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi
rebels that they fired missiles and drones at the kingdom.
Houthi Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said in a statement on they had fired
toward a third airport on Tuesday. The Associated Press could not
confirm whether the Houthis had hit Abha International Airport. Saudi
authorities did not immediately comment.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Tuesday it intercepted
and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis toward Khamis
Mushait, a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia that’s home to a major
Saudi military base.
Fighting in Yemen grinds on
The Houthis were fighting Tuesday around Dhubab, a strategic town in
Yemen that its internationally recognized government had previously said
it had retaken, a senior Yemeni military official told The Associated
Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to
speak to reporters.
Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen’s government have launched a
military campaign to reclaim Houthi-controlled territory near the
southern tip of the Red Sea to prevent disruptions to oil being exported
out of the region.
___ By Ahmed al Haj in Aden, Yemen.
Tanker hit in Strait of Hormuz
An outbound tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an
“unknown projectile” on Monday, the British military said in a late
report Tuesday. There were no immediate reports of casualties or
environmental impact.
Even as Iran has lost its near-complete chokehold on the strait, the
ongoing risk of Iranian attacks keeps overall ship traffic well below
prewar levels.
2 killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
Two Israeli airstrikes killed two people in Gaza City, health officials
at the city’s Shifa Hospital said. Israel's military said it targeted
militants in both strikes.
It was the latest deadly attack since a ceasefire nearly a year ago in
the Israel-Hamas war triggered by the 2023 attack, when Hamas-led
militants killed 1,200 people, most civilians, in southern Israel and
abducted 251 others. More than 1,460 Palestinians have been killed since
the ceasefire, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The ministry, part
of the Hamas-run government, maintains detailed records and is seen as
generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. It does not
distinguish between civilians and militants in its toll but says women
and children make up around half the dead.
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A vendor walks under a billboard showing Houthi leader Abdul Malik
al-Houthi with a phrase that reads in Arabic: "The Saudi accusation
against our people deserves to be described as the lie of the
century" in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah
Abdulrahman)
Netanyahu warns of potential attack related to Israel's upcoming vote
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a Cabinet meeting on
Tuesday that Hamas could attack Israel in a bid to influence the outcome
of the country's elections later this month. Netanyahu, who is locked in
a tough battle for re-election, did not publicly provide evidence for
the claim.
In recent days, Netanyahu's political opponents have pointed to the
thwarted FlyDubai cockpit attack as the latest example of his
government's failure to manage security threats.
AFP photojournalist says Israeli settlers beat him in olive harvest
season attack
Jaafar Ashtiyeh, a veteran Palestinian photojournalist for Agence
France-Presse, said he was filming the olive harvest in the West Bank
village of Aqraba when he heard shooting by Israeli settlers. He said
they later encircled him, took his camera as he was filming the attack
and beat him, causing injuries that required hospitalization.
The Foreign Press Association, which represents international media in
Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, urged Israel to “investigate why
soldiers present in the area did not intervene in this attack against
clearly identified journalists.”
The Palestinian Authority said settlers in the area also shot one man in
the leg and severely beat two others in the town south of Nablus.
Israel’s military did not provide immediate comment.
Israel demolishes Palestinian apartments in east Jerusalem
Israeli authorities tore down a five-story building in east Jerusalem on
Tuesday.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attended the demolition and
said that Israeli authorities had demolished more than 10,000 structures
built without permits over the past year and a half.
Palestinians say procuring construction permits is nearly impossible for
them in east Jerusalem, which Israel annexed in the 1967 Mideast war and
is home to almost 400,000 Palestinians.
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