Middle East updates: Houthis target Yemen government palace in Aden
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Houthi rebels say they targeted Saudi military assets in a rare attack on the interim seat of Yemen's internationally recognized government. Meanwhile, vessels are again under fire near the Strait of Hormuz. More on DW.
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Houthi rebels on Thursday denied having launched a missile attack towards the Medina region, home to one of Islam's holiest cities. Earlier, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis said it had intercepted a cruise missile over the province of Medina.
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The Houthis have previously pledged not to attack airports in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
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Also on Thursday, Saudi authorities said a drone was destroyed over a major oil-producing region in the Eastern province.
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For weeks, a Saudi-led coalition and Yemeni government forces have been fighting off a resurgence of Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have recently made territorial gains along Yemen's strategic Red Sea coastline. The Houthis have been escalating the conflict, including by targeting civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.
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On Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition said that in October, 20 separate Houthi attacks have targeted King Khaled International Airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, killing 17 people. Service at the airport was suspended this week.
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Most of those fatalities came last Saturday, after a strike hit the airport, killing 13 people and wounding around 300 others, in the deadliest attack on Saudi Arabia in a decade.
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The UN Security Council on Thursday issued a statement condemning "in the strongest terms" the ongoing Houthi attacks, calling the strikes on civilian airports and other facilities "reckless."
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A Houthi missile strike on Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Thursday targeted command centers of a Saudi-led coalition and Yemeni government forces, an unnamed government minister told AFP news agency several hours after the attack.
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Earlier reports said explosions were heard in the vicinity of the presidential palace in Aden, where Yemen's internationally-recognized government is based.
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Yemeni Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani said Prime Minister Shaya al-Zindani, and cabinet officials, were unharmed, adding the attack had been carried out with five missiles.
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Two members of the prime minister’s security detail were reported killed. Shorty after the attack, a Houthi-aligned television channel reported that a "military headquarters run by Saudi officers" was attacked.
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Aden has been the interim seat of Yemen's government since Houthi rebels based in the north took over the capital, Sanaa, and other parts of northern Yemen in 2014.
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A Saudi-led coalition is fighting the Iran-backed Houthis alongside government forces.
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Iran's military on Thursday said an oil tanker caught fire in the Gulf of Oman, just south of the Strait of Hormuz, while trying to pass through a "prohibited" area.
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Although Iran did not directly claim responsibility for the tanker fire, state television cited an army statement saying an "offending" and "non-compliant" tanker had switched off its tracking system while trying to pass thought "the prohibited zone."
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The US military, which is also enforcing a maritime blockade in the region, has not issued a statement.
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The reported incident comes a day after Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said a cargo vessel was sunk while passing through Strait of Hormuz after striking a mine.
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Iranian state media quoted the IRGC as saying the ship was sailing on an "unauthorized route," but did not share details of the vessel's identity or the fate of its crew.
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The state television report included footage of an unidentified ship listing and billowing a plume of smoke.
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Meanwhile, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said a Singapore-flagged container ship GFS Pride was hit by "unknown projectiles" on Tuesday and sank. US broadcaster CNN reported that the GFS Pride is the ship the IRGC claimed struck a mine, and cited expert assessment that a drone strike is likely what actually caused the sinking.
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video In a statement, the MPA said all crew members were evacuated from the ship.
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The MPA also reported a second vessel, the GFS Giselle, was attacked by projectiles on Tuesday, and sustained damage but was able to reach safe anchorage.
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"Such attacks are unprovoked, unjustifiable, and a breach of international law," the authority said.
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The US military has not commented.
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The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO) reported Wednesday that two container ships were struck on Tuesday by projectiles but sustained only minor damage.
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According to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the GFS Pride is one of only two ships to have been sunk in the Strait of Hormuz out of 114 reported incidents since the US launched the war with Iran in February. On Thursday, Houthi rebels said a missile attack targeted the Yemeni government's interim capital, Aden.
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Witnesses cited by news agencies reported several explosions and smoke rising from the area around the al-Maashiq Palace following the rare attack on the headquarters of Yemen's internationally recognized government in the southern port city.
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Yemeni Prime Minister Shaya al-Zindani and members of the government were safe, according to Yemen's Information Ministry.
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The ministry statement added two members of the prime minister's security detail were killed.
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Other reports, citing government officials, said 10 people were injured.
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It is currently unclear if the palace itself was hit, or what the extent of damage could be.
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Houthi-affiliated media reported the strikes targeted "the headquarters of military operations, led by Saudi officers, at the Al-Maashiq Palace in Aden, as well as weapons depots belonging to them."
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Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the strikes targeted what he called "Saudi military operations headquarters in Aden," Reuters reported. Yemen's civil war reignited in September as the Iran-backed Houthis launched a rapid offensive against government forces, capturing key territory along the Red Sea coast and expanding their control over swathes of territory on the Red Sea.
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Since then both sides have regularly traded strikes.
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The Houthis have launched missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, with several killed in separate attacks on Riyadh airport.
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Despite, Saudi-led coalition airstrikes and government counter-offensives, the group’s recent territorial gains have largely remained intact.
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Tensions continue to escalate in the ongoing conflict between the Houthi rebels and Yemen's Saudi-backed government. The Houthis claimed a strike on the presidential palace in Aden.
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Saudi Arabia also reported that it had intercepted a missile targeting Medina.
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Meanwhile, attacks on shipping continue, with Iran reporting on oil tanker was on fire in the Gulf of Oman, coming a day after a cargo ship sank in the Strait of Hormuz after hitting a mine.
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