Jordan condemns Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia after strikes on Jazan and Najran airports
Yemen Herald News 
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and said it supports all measures Riyadh takes to protect its security and sovereignty.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi delivered the message in a telephone call with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Jordan’s foreign ministry said.
Safadi condemned attacks on the kingdom that included attempts to target the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, and strikes on civilian and economic facilities, according to the ministry’s account of the call.
He said Jordan stood in full solidarity with Saudi Arabia.
The Jordanian government issued a separate statement the same day. It described the attacks as a violation of Saudi sovereignty and international law.
This account of the call rests on the Jordanian foreign ministry’s own readout. No independent record of what was said has been published.
Egypt’s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, telephoned Prince Faisal the same day. Abdelatty said he repeated Cairo’s condemnation of attacks on Saudi Arabia and affirmed Egypt’s support for the kingdom’s security and stability.
The calls followed strikes on two airports in southern Saudi Arabia on Monday evening.
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Jazan and Najran International Airport both came under attack, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said.
The authority said the attacks slightly injured three people and caused material damage. Those hurt were taken to hospital for treatment.
Emergency teams responded in line with approved procedures, the authority said, adding that it would coordinate with security agencies to assess the damage.
The civil aviation statement did not name who carried out the attacks. Al Jazeera and Gulf News reported the same casualty figure.
Both cities lie near Saudi Arabia’s southern border with Yemen.
The Houthis said they had targeted the two airports and other sites in southern Saudi Arabia.
Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council, condemned the airport attacks on Tuesday.
He called the strikes an escalation and a violation of international law, and said the targeting of civilian and vital installations across the kingdom showed disregard for international law. He called on the international community to hold those responsible to account.
The General Secretariat of the Arab Interior Ministers Council condemned the attacks the same day. It denounced what it called the targeting of civilian facilities and expressed solidarity with Saudi Arabia.
Jordan’s message was one of several from Arab governments this week.
Bahrain’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that it backed Saudi Arabia’s position on Yemen and condemned what it called continued Houthi attacks on the kingdom.
Kuwait’s foreign ministry condemned a strike on an electricity station in Medina and called it a breach of international law.
Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said on Wednesday that Pakistan’s commitment to the security of the Haramain Sharifain and of Saudi Arabia was non-negotiable.
The Taiba power distribution station in Medina, which supplies the Prophet’s Mosque, was struck on Sept. 29.
The Saudi-led Coalition to Support Legitimacy said the Houthi group planned and carried out that attack. Coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki said an examination of debris from the drone involved led to that conclusion.
The Houthis denied responsibility and rejected the accusation that they had struck Islamic holy sites, Euronews reported on Oct. 2. The two accounts have not been reconciled.
Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said on Wednesday that the group had carried out further strikes, naming King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Abha International Airport, a military base at Khamis Mushait, Aden International Airport and three Saudi military camps in the Jazan and Asir regions.
Those claims have not been independently confirmed. Saudi authorities had not published an account of them at the time of writing.
Saudi officials say attacks in recent weeks have reached Mecca, Medina, Riyadh, Abha, Khamis Mushayt, Jazan, Najran, Taif and Yanbu. They also say Saudi vessels have been targeted in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab strait.
Yemen Herald could not independently verify that list.
Safadi and Prince Faisal discussed efforts to end escalation in the region in an earlier contact in September, Middle East Monitor reported.
The statements come as fighting inside Yemen has intensified.
Houthi forces seized Mocha and territory around it in mid-September, Al Jazeera reported.
Rashad al-Alimi, chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, announced the start of military operations to retake Houthi-held territory on Sunday.
Yemen’s government said on Monday that its forces had taken Mocha and positions near Bab al-Mandab. The Houthis denied the advance.
Al Jazeera said it could not independently verify battlefield claims from either side.
Much of the fighting has centred on Taiz governorate, including the Dhubab district on the Red Sea coast.
Hans Grundberg, the UN special envoy for Yemen, said he was alarmed by intensified fighting around Taiz and called for the offensive to stop, Xinhua reported on Oct. 2.
The UN humanitarian plan for Yemen published in March estimated that more than 22 million people in the country need assistance and that 18.3 million are acutely food insecure. It put the number of internally displaced people at 5.2 million.
Bahrain issued its statement through its foreign ministry’s account on X.
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