Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed Houthi missile tunnels and launchers in Yemen

The Saudi-led coalition announced on Monday that it destroyed five tunnels and four ballistic missile launchers in Yemen. The strike aimed to reduce the Houthi rebels' capacity to fire missiles at targets inside the kingdom. The coalition also damaged a separate missile storage facility and targeted fortifications along the front lines.

Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki, the coalition's spokesperson, stated that the operation sought to cut supply lines between Houthi-held areas. In a post on X, he said the coalition would maintain deterrent operational measures to counter what he described as brutal attacks inside Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

Yemen's Houthi-run Health Ministry reported that Saudi-backed forces struck a hospital in the Red Sea port city of Mokha. The ministry said the attack caused extensive damage but did not confirm casualties. It also claimed that a children's hospital in Taiz province was targeted on Sunday. Two anonymous residents of Mokha told the Associated Press that a rocket hit a four-story residential building, damaging the general hospital and at least ten nearby houses.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed on Monday that rebels fired ballistic missiles at military gatherings and weapons depots in Aden and Lahj provinces. Saree said the strikes inflicted losses on Saudi-backed government forces. The Yemeni government separately accused the Houthis of targeting displacement camps on the outskirts of Aden on Sunday, though neither side provided evidence for these claims.

In Israel, Defense Minister Israel Katz denied reports of a rift between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the military leadership over potential actions against Iran. Katz described the reports as completely baseless and false. He stated that Israel has no intention to strike Iran before Tuesday's national elections but would respond with great force if attacked first. Netanyahu's office had earlier called Channel 12's report of the clash fake news.

In a separate development, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan agreed to continue talks on regional security. The four countries held their first quadrilateral meeting in Tehran, hosted by Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned in a televised address that renewed attacks on Iran would destabilize the region and had already driven fuel prices higher. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, speaking in Cairo, expressed deep alarm over surging settler violence in the West Bank and called for the lifting of restrictions on humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Egyptian lawmakers approved President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's request to support Saudi Arabia in countering Houthi attacks. The decision followed a pledge by Egypt's highest security body to provide all necessary forms of support to defend Saudi security and territorial integrity.