In an early‑morning assault on Wednesday, Yemen’s Houthi movement said it carried out an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, eastern Saudi Arabia. Saudi authorities confirmed that two people were killed and eight others injured. The victims were identified as a Saudi citizen and an Indian resident.
The Houthi spokesperson, Yahya Sarea, did not specify the weapon used, but the group claimed the airport was one of several sites hit with drones and missiles over the previous 48 hours. Other locations targeted that week included the Saudi Defence Ministry building in Riyadh, an Aramco facility in Yanbu, and Abha International Airport in the south.
The Saudi Energy Ministry reported that two additional people died that morning when debris from a drone—intercepted elsewhere in the Eastern Province—struck a contractor’s vehicle at the Shaybah oil field operated by Aramco. Those killed were residents of the Philippines and Nepal.
The Saudi‑led coalition says it intercepted four drones over the Eastern Province on Wednesday night, and another four over Riyadh and Medina on Thursday. At least 21 people have now been killed in Houthi attacks on Saudi airports since the start of October, the highest figure over the past decade. The most lethal strike, on 10 October at Riyadh International Airport, killed 13 and wounded 308.
The Houthis continue to accuse Saudi Arabia of aggressive air strikes on Yemen and of imposing a blockade. They maintain that attacks on Saudi infrastructure are a response to their own losses and to broader regional tensions involving Iran, the U.S., Israel, and Iran’s influence in Yemen. The conflict, which began in 2014, has displaced more than 256,000 people and caused significant casualties on both sides.
