Houthis target Saudi Arabia’s Medina and Yemen’s presidential palace in Aden

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis targeted the presidential palace in Aden on Friday with two missiles, a police official said.

Aden, the seat of Yemen’s Saudi-backed internationally recognized government, has been targeted repeatedly since Yemen’s dormant civil war reignited in July.

Two eyewitnesses said that they saw ambulances entering the palace in Aden, a large compound made up of several buildings. Shortly before, residents and they heard two blasts in the city.

The Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa to the north, most recently struck the perimeter of Aden’s airport on Wednesday after saying they had targeted a naval base and a military camp last week.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said it had intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by the Iran-backed militia at Saudi Arabia’s Medina, home to one of Islam’s holiest sites and visited by millions of Muslim pilgrims each year.

Earlier Friday, the Saudi-led coalition intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by the Houthis in the Mecca region, the coalition said in a statement. The attacks are the latest in a series of cross-border attacks by the Houthis on Saudi Arabia, involving drones and missiles targeting airports, civilians and energy infrastructure.