Operations at several energy facilities in Saudi Arabia were suspended on Tuesday after attacks by Iran-aligned Houthi forces injured more than 70 people and sparked fires, Saudi authorities said.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis will announce a “broad military operation” deep inside Saudi territory, Yahya Saree, the group’s Military Spokesman has said.
Egypt rejected Iran's moves to restrict the movement of ships through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, at a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo.
“We emphasise on the necessity of freedom of navigation and, naturally, the complete rejection of using maritime corridors as a tool for pressure or escalation,” Badr Abdela, Egypt's Foreign Minister, said.
Tehran's Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva has called for those responsible for what it described as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran to be held accountable.
The Mission said the opening of the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council was an opportunity to amplify the voices of victims and survivors of the conflict.
It said the council had a mandate to address violations of human rights and international humanitarian law arising from conflicts, including what Tehran described as deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilian infrastructure and targets in Iran.
Saudi Arabia's energy ministry has said that a number of energy facilities and utilities in the kingdom's southern region have been attacked by Yemen's Houthis, causing fires at several sites and temporarily halting some operations.
Attacks on Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis injured 73 people, including women and children, Major General Turki Al-Maliki, Spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has said.
The Houthis attacked the cities of Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran, according to Al-Maliki. He said that the attacks constituted a “dangerous escalation.”
The coalition will respond firmly to the attacks that targeted civilian and economic entities, he added.
The world is facing an “industrial catastrophe" due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari has told U.S. news outlet CNN.
Al-Ansari said that the weaponisation of waterways couldn't be allowed to become the new normal in conflicts, adding that the method needed to be killed “in its infancy.”
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz slowed on Monday, data from ship tracking firm Kpler showed, with just seven vessels sailing through the waterway, versus eight on the previous day.
Meanwhile, Dr. Moshen Rezaee, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council warned that economic warfare would be met by a “maritime exclusion zone across the Persian Gulf" to the edge of the U.S. naval blockade.
Follow for updates from the Middle East conflict throughout the day.
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