00:00The Houthis of Yemen claimed to have attacked an oil facility in southwest Saudi Arabia on Sunday,
00:04marking the most recent assault on the kingdom by the rebels supported by Iran.
00:09In the meantime, the Pentagon is pressuring the U.S. defense industry to increase weaponry production,
00:14and Iran has made fresh demands regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the restart
00:19of negotiations. According to Houthis military spokesperson Yahya Sari, they used a drone to
00:25attack an Aramco refinery in the city of Jizan. According to him, the attack was a reaction to
00:30Saudi drones entering Yemen's airspace over the Sada and Haja provinces. The Aramco refinery's
00:36facility caught fire early on Sunday, but no one was hurt, according to the Saudi energy ministry.
00:41The ministry stated that the fire had been put out, but it did not specify what caused it.
00:46Sunday's Houthi attack is the latest in a series of missile and drone attacks that targeted Saudi
00:51Arabia and its shipping in the Red Sea. The Houthis also attacked a vital port on the Red Sea,
00:57according to a Yemeni government official on Sunday. According to Fayyad al-Nomen,
01:02assistant undersecretary of the information ministry, the Houthis attacked the Mocha port
01:06with drones and missiles. Renovated recently to handle shipping that avoids the Houthi-held ports
01:11in Hodaida, it is one of the major ports under Yemen's internationally recognized government.
01:16The Houthis did not immediately respond. More than four years after a 2022 truce put an end to
01:22significant fighting in the poor Arab nation, the escalation poses a threat to rekindle Yemen's
01:27civil war.
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