Three persons were killed in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition air strike, while two more were killed in Saudi Arabia by a projectile attack blamed on Yemen’s Houthi.
Yemen has been embroiled in a civil war since 2014, with Iran-backed Houthi fighting the internationally recognized government, which is backed by a Saudi-led military coalition.
A projectile strike on Jazan, a southern part of the kingdom bordering Yemen, killed two individuals, a Saudi and a Yemeni, and injured seven others, according to Saudi Arabia’s civil defence.
“A military rocket fell on a commercial business on the main street, killing two people and wounding seven others,” it stated in a statement.
Three people were killed and six others were injured in Yemeni air raids in Ajama, a town northwest of the rebel-held capital Sanaa, according to medics.
“Three civilians including a child and a woman were killed, and six others were wounded,” medics told the AFP news agency.
The fatal cross-border attack marks an escalation in Yemen’s long-running civil war.
Saudi-led military coalition air raids targeted Sanaa earlier on Friday, hitting a military camp near the city centre, Saudi media reported.
Houthi media said the attacks had hit a populated neighborhood, damaging homes.
The Saudi-led coalition on Saturday said that it was “preparing for a large-scale military operation”.
The coalition said it would hold a news conference later in the day to address the latest developments.
The Houthis captured Sanaa and much of Yemen’s north in 2014, igniting the country’s war.
Months later, a Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States intervened to depose the Houthis and restore the internationally recognized government.
The conflict has come to a standstill, resulting in the world’s biggest humanitarian calamity.
The Houthis have increasingly organized drone assaults and fired missiles across the border against airports, oil infrastructure, and military positions within the kingdom throughout the fight.
The coalition bombing campaign in Yemen has drawn widespread condemnation for striking non-military targets like as hospitals and wedding parties in the Arab world’s poorest country.
Yemen’s civil conflict has claimed the lives of over 130,000 people, many of whom are civilians.
