Yemen and the region
Houthis claim strikes on Saudi oil facilities; civilian casualty reports in Taiz and Lahj
The Houthis claimed strikes on an East–West pipeline pumping station and a Yanbu facility, as well as missile operations in Lahj; their results were not independently verified. In Taiz, a report added an injured child while repeating two previously reported names and describing a different weapon. Reports of casualties at Kharaz camp remain unverified.
Summary
- AttributedThe Houthis claim a drone struck pumping station 7 and a ballistic missile targeted a Yanbu oil facility; hits and damage are not independently confirmed.
- AttributedAn update attributed to the siege affairs office adds an injured child in Al-Misrakh; the adult victims were named earlier, and the accounts differ on the weapon used.
- AttributedSaree claims six missile strikes in Kharaz and Ras al-Arah; the alleged casualties are not a verified toll.
- UnverifiedAden Time reports preliminary claims of shelling at Kharaz camp and a Somali woman’s death; no named medical or UN source confirms them.
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- AttributedSaudi Arabia and Yanbu
Houthis claim strikes on pumping station 7 and a Yanbu oil facility
The Sanaa authorities’ 26 September website quoted Yahya Saree as saying a drone targeted pumping station 7 on the East–West pipeline and a ballistic missile targeted a Yanbu oil facility. Saree also denied the Saudi account of two missiles intercepted over Mecca. Hits and damage have not been independently verified. This announcement differs from yesterday’s statement about station 11 and Riyadh airport in its station number and weapon; it does not by itself establish the outcome of new operations.
- AttributedTaiz and Al-Misrakh
Siege affairs update adds an injured child and differs from an earlier account of the incident
Al-Sahil Al-Gharbi quoted the siege affairs office as reporting Mansour Ghaleb killed and Abdulazim Qassem and 13-year-old Mohammed Nabil Abdullah Ibrahim Ali wounded by sniper fire in Al-Misrakh, in a count as of 19:30 Yemen time. Saba had already named the two adults in an account of artillery shelling in Dabba village, Al-Aqrood. The additions are the child and a different description of the weapon. The two adults are not counted as another incident; responsibility and the overlap between the accounts remain independently unverified.
- AttributedLahj, Kharaz and Ras al-Arah
Saree claims six ballistic-missile strikes on sites in Lahj
Houthi-aligned outlets, including 26 September and Nabaa, published a statement by Yahya Saree claiming six operations using six ballistic missiles against military concentrations at Kharaz camp and other sites in Ras al-Arah and Kharaz. He claimed direct hits and dozens killed or wounded, without a named casualty list or independent verification. The statement was read, but its claimed targets and losses are not established. It is not automatically linked to reports of shelling at the nearby displacement camp.
- UnverifiedLahj and Kharaz camp
Unverified preliminary reports of Kharaz camp shelling and a Somali woman’s death
Aden Time reported shelling in Huwayrib and Kharaz camp in Al-Mudarabah and Ras al-Arah, attributing it to the Houthis, with preliminary reports that a Somali woman died. The report names no medical or UN source and says other casualties and damage remain unclear. A near-identical account appeared on Ain Aden with a local clock whose UTC offset remains unresolved. The two copies are not independent confirmations; the incident time and the account’s first publication time remain uncertain.