Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia have wounded 73 civilians, official says

What the report says

Saudi Arabia’s coalition in Yemen says recent Houthi attacks on the kingdom’s southern provinces have wounded 73 civilians, including women and children, according to a statement from coalition spokesperson Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki reported by Al Jazeera on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. The coalition said the strikes or attacks hit civilian and economic sites in Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran, though it did not say exactly when they occurred.

Al-Maliki described the incidents as a serious escalation and a breach of Saudi sovereignty, and said the coalition would take further operational steps to respond and address the source of the threat. The statement comes as fighting has intensified both across Yemen and along the Saudi border, adding to a conflict that has repeatedly spilled beyond Yemen’s front lines.

Al Jazeera also reported that the Houthis accused Saudi Arabia of launching an air strike on a detention facility in al-Hazm, in Yemen’s al-Jawf province, killing seven people and wounding at least seven others. Saudi Arabia had not publicly responded to that allegation at the time. The exchange underscores the continuing cycle of cross-border attacks and counterclaims in a war that has drawn in regional actors and affected civilians on both sides of the border.