11.10.2026
Houthis rebels on Sunday launched another strike on the King Khalid International Airport a day after 13 people were killed and many others injured following an attack on the facility.
The Saudi government said in a that the latest attack left many people injured. “Damage assessments and safety inspections of airport facilities are underway,” it adds.
The rebels said they would continue to violate the Saudi airspace on Sunday. Saudi Arabia closed the Riyadh airport and ordered schools to be conducted on-line as the conflict escalates to a new level.
Flights were diverted elsewhere, the Flightradar24 tracker said. Countries including the U.S., Britain, Germany, Australia and Canada warned citizens to avoid the airport.
“The airports and airspace are exposed to targeting and constitute a theatre of operations for our forces,” Houthi military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, wrote on X.
He urged “everyone to take our warnings seriously.”
The attack on Riyadh’s airport drew condemnation from the United Nations and world leaders, including President Trump, who said he was considering joining Saudi strikes on the Houthis.
“The United States strongly condemns the recent attacks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the terrorist Houthis, including today’s strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh that took numerous innocent lives, including an American citizen,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a social media post.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the attacks by Iran’s proxies are “pushing the region into a spiral of violence.”
“They are destabilizing crucial global transport and energy nodes,” she wrote on X.
The Saudi statement said the dead included four Saudi citizens, two Bangladeshi nationals, a Palestinian, a U.S. citizen, an Egyptian, a Jordanian, a Syrian and a Sudanese. It said several hospitals were treating the 309 people injured, some in serious condition.
The Egyptian woman was a flight attendant identified as Azza Ramzy, 28, who worked for the Saudi airline Flynas, according to the Egyptian state-run Al-Qahera News television.