Three people are wounded as strikes hit Jazan and Najran airports

Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation said on Tuesday that two airports near the Yemen border were hit on Monday evening. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz airport in Jazan and Najran airport took the strikes. The authority's count is three minor injuries and material damage. The injured were taken to hospital. Specialist teams responded as the attacks happened, and the authority said it was still assessing the sites and taking steps to protect passengers and staff.

A later line from the same authority, carried in some accounts, spoke of injuries of varying severity. The sentence that names the number says three minor injuries. That is the figure to use until a hospital list says otherwise.

What the Houthis said they hit

The Houthi claim is wider than the Saudi aviation statement. Military spokesman Yahya Saree said on Monday evening that the group had carried out three operations with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones. In his account, the first operation targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and disrupted traffic. The second hit an Aramco refinery at Rabigh, in the Mecca region, and started a fire. The third covered Abha airport, the Khamis Mushait base and the Akfa camp in Asir, plus what he called sensitive sites in Najran and Jazan.

Saudi aviation has confirmed Jazan and Najran. It has not, in the statement Al Jazeera and others carried, confirmed a hit on King Khalid in Riyadh, a fire at Rabigh, or damage at Abha. The gap between a spokesman’s list and an authority’s confirmed list is the usable fact. One side has claimed a country-wide night. The other has confirmed two southern airports, three wounded, and material damage.

Saree tied the operations to 60 Saudi air and missile strikes over the previous 24 hours on Sanaa and on Al-Jawf, Taiz, Hajjah, Saada and Marib. The Saudi-led coalition said early on Tuesday that it had destroyed a ballistic-missile launch platform in Sanaa, which the Houthis have held since 2014. Those two sentences describe the same exchange from opposite ends: a launch platform struck in the capital, and airports struck in the southern Saudi provinces that face the border.

Where this sits in the ground war

The airport strikes come during a ground push by forces loyal to Yemen's internationally recognised government, backed by Saudi Arabia, against Houthi positions. Reporting this week has included a claimed seizure of sites near Dhubab, by the Bab el-Mandeb. The coalition's stated aim in the current operation is to take back Houthi-held territory, including ground that controls approaches to the strait. A missile night against Jazan and Najran is the Houthi answer that reaches into Saudi territory rather than contesting that ground directly.

Jazan and Najran are not symbolic targets on a map. Both airports serve provinces that took the weight of cross-border fire in earlier rounds of the war, before the 2022 truce and the later lowering of the tempo. A confirmed hit, even with three minor injuries, ends a period in which those airports had dropped out of the daily file. It also gives Riyadh a domestic fact, wounded civilians or staff at two civilian airports, on the same day the coalition is describing a destroyed launcher in Sanaa.

No fatality has been reported by the aviation authority. No closure duration has been published. The operational question left open on Tuesday is whether either airport stayed open after the strike, and whether the Riyadh and Rabigh claims produce a second Saudi statement. Until that statement exists, the confirmed ledger is two airports, three wounded, material damage, and a launcher the coalition says it destroyed in Sanaa.