The Houthis have announced in the late evening (local) their forces have launched a large missile and drone attack on Saudi Arabia's territory. The group has announced it again targeted King Khalid Airport in Riyadh as well as the Aramco refinery in Rabigh.

Air traffic halted at Riyadh airport due to a Houthi attack, via Sabereen

by Dave De Camp, antiwar.com

While oil exports from the Middle East have reportedly exceeded pre-war levels, attacks on tankers in or near the Strait of Hormuz have also risen over the past week, with at least 11 coming under attack since last Monday, according to a count from The New York Times.

Posted by Tyler Durden:  Authored by Larry C. Johnson via SonarIntelligence (Sonar21),

The US stopped refueling Saudi warplanes in 2018, several months after the Saudis bombed a school bus in Yemen

Dave De Camp, antiwar.com

The US is refueling Saudi fighter jets as part of its support for Riyadh’s war in Yemen, a US official has told Al Jazeera, marking an escalation of US involvement in the conflict.

by Jason Ditz, antiwar.com

t least one Palestinian was killed, and several others were wounded on Monday in Israeli attacks targeting al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, an area filled with sprawling tent encampments housing Palestinian families displaced by Israel’s genocidal war.

Former Israeli prime minister says failure to challenge calls for killing and starving Palestinians has eroded Israel’s moral standards

Nadav Rapaport in Tel Aviv, Israel

There are "no innocent people" in Gaza and Israel should "also kill two-week-old babies" in the Palestinian enclave, Israel's former prime minister Yair Lapid has recounted young Israelis telling him.

The outlet posted the following image on its official Telegram channel. Newsquawk, which picked up the Sabereen report, has noted that it remains unclear whether this is a new incident or is damage stemming from the earlier reported Sunday attack on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline (detailed below):

🇾🇪⚠️🇸🇦 Yemeni sources allege plot to stage drone attack on Mecca Yemeni media citing unnamed regional sources claim approximately 19 American-made LUCAS attack drones have been transferred into Saudi-controlled areas of Yemen, including Al-Jawf. The sources allege the drones are intended to be launched toward Mecca and the area surrounding the Grand Mosque, in an attack that would subsequently be blamed on Ansarallah. The allegation has not been independently verified.

Saudi Arabia and Yemeni government forces have been preparing for a major offensive against Iran-backed Houthis, whose latest advances along Yemen's western coast have tightened their control over coastal areas and disrupted a critical maritime chokepoint known as the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Bloomberg now reports that the operation is underway.