Gulf Cooperation Council strongly condemns Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has strongly condemned Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia, denouncing them for deliberately targeting civilians and facilities in a statement issued on the matter.

In the statement, the council described the attacks as an “extremist criminal approach” that threatens the region’s “security and stability,” Caliber.Az reports.

It said the repeated attacks demonstrate the Houthis’ malicious intentions and their rejection of peace and stability in Yemen.

“Targeting civilian installations and national capabilities is a condemned terrorist act that cannot be justified or tolerated under any pretext.

The Houthi group's persistence in these hostile practices represents a blatant challenge to the international community and a direct threat to regional and international peace and security,” the statement added.

The GCC’s condemnation comes after the Houthis carried out their latest wave of attacks against Saudi Arabia, further escalating tensions in the region. 

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis launched a wave of strikes on southern Saudi Arabia on September 8, 2026, hitting civilian and economic sites in Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jizan and Najran and wounding 73 people, including women and children, while also causing fires that temporarily halted operations at some energy facilities.

The attacks mark the heaviest such assault since a four-year informal truce in Yemen’s civil war collapsed in July 2026, after which the Houthis declared a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia and began targeting its vessels in the Red Sea as well as oil infrastructure.

The latest barrage came hours after the Houthis accused Saudi forces of an airstrike on a prison in Yemen’s al-Jawf province that they said killed several people, amid intensified fighting between Houthi forces and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government.

By Jeyhun Aghazada