Officials say seven operations hit targets deep inside Saudi Arabia, including facilities in Riyadh, Yanbu and Dammam, in response to continued aggression and an intensified blockade.

SANA’A – Yemeni forces carried out seven “unique” military operations deep inside Saudi territory using ballistic missiles and drones, targeting Riyadh’s Khalid Airport, Aramco facilities in Yanbu, the Rabigh refinery, crude oil pumping stations and pipelines, King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Najran Airport and Khamis Mushait airbase.

In a statement, Yemen’s military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced on Saturday that all targets were hit accurately.

He said Khalid Airport in Riyadh—which he described as the capital of “shame and disgrace”—was struck in two phases, while the strike on King Fahd International Airport led to the suspension of flights.

The operations, he said, came “within the framework of responding to the Saudi regime’s aggression against our country.”

Saree said Saudi Arabia had launched 100 airstrikes on various Yemeni regions in the past 24 hours, killing and wounding dozens of people, and that the total number of aerial and missile attacks since the start of the latest escalation had reached 3,123.

He vowed to continue Yemen’s “sacred religious duty” to defend the country and its people, and to persist with operations deep inside Saudi territory, “imposing an equation of siege for siege and escalation for escalation until the enemy stops its aggression and ends the siege of our country.”

The announcement came amid intense fighting on the ground. On Saturday, Saudi warplanes launched successive airstrikes on Sana’a, with residents telling Xinhua they heard powerful explosions as warplanes continued to hover over the capital.

Al-Masirah reported that three people were killed and several others wounded when a strike hit a house in the Asr area of western Sanaa, while casualties were also reported after a cement factory was struck in Hamdan district, northwest of the capital.

A separate strike on a residential building for cement factory workers killed six women and one child and wounded three others. In Hudaydah, five members of the same family—a father, two children and two wives—were killed in a strike on their home.

The broadcaster also said nearly 20 airstrikes hit Mocha, a city in southwestern Ta’izz province near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait. A military source said Saudi aircraft struck a lighthouse on Mayyun Island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Airstrikes were also reported in the northern province of Saada and areas in Ta’izz.

In a separate development, Ansarullah said Yemeni forces attacked the southern city of Aden, targeting “Saudi enemy concentrations at the so-called Al-Nasr camp and the naval base in Aden”.

Explosions were heard in the city, which serves as the interim seat of the Saudi-backed fugitive regime.

Ansarullah political bureau member Muhammed al-Bukhaiti said earlier this week that Yemen began to meet blockade with blockade and escalation with escalation “until peace is achieved by ending the war and the blockade on both sides”.

He said the latest escalation began after Saudi Arabia bombed Sana’a international airport in July, prompting the Yemeni armed forces to enforce a “blockade for blockade” policy and declare an embargo on Saudi shipping in the Red Sea.

He warned that Yemen could launch further missile and drone attacks, destroying Saudi oil facilities, power plants, ports and airports.

Another Ansarullah political bureau member, Hazam al-Asad, said the targeting of Saudi airports was in the framework of imposing an air blockade on Yemen.

“We were not the ones who started attacks against vital infrastructure; the Saudi government did,” he said, adding that Ansarullah remains committed to a framework of “limited escalation” in the face of Saudi escalation.

Al-Bukhaiti also reported that Yemen’s retaliatory attacks have inflicted heavy casualties on the Saudi military.

“In Asir and Jazan, about 45 Saudi soldiers and officers were killed, and more than 100 members of the Saudi Army’s ground forces, National Guard, border guards, and duty forces were injured,” he said in a post on X on Thursday, noting that Riyadh heavily censors coverage of the attacks.

The war traces back to March 2015, when Saudi Arabia and a U.S.-backed coalition launched a military campaign and blockade aimed at reinstalling its favorable regime in Sana’a.

The latest escalation began in July amid the broader regional war, with Ansarullah-led Yemeni forces expanding its control along the Red Sea coast and intensifying attacks on Saudi territory and infrastructure.