At least four people were killed and 10 others were injured in a missile attack launched by the Houthis on Thursday on the Ma'ashiq presidential palace in the city of Aden in southern Yemen, according to Agence France-Presse.
The Yemeni Ministry of Information said that the Prime Minister, Shaye’ al-Zindani, and members of the government were fine following the attack on the palace complex, which houses the headquarters of the internationally recognized Yemeni government.
Two government officials had previously told Reuters that two guard members had been killed.
Media outlets affiliated with the Houthi group reported, on Thursday, that the group targeted the headquarters of military operations command in Ma'ashiq Palace in the city of Aden.
The group's "Saba" agency reported that the attack targeted what it described as a military operations headquarters run by Saudi officers inside the palace, in addition to weapons depots.
The forces affiliated with the Yemeni government also announced that the Houthis targeted the city of Marib with ballistic missiles.
This comes after the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council announced, on Thursday, the postponement of their summit, which was scheduled in Riyadh on October 24, 2026, to a date to be determined later, in light of the continuing escalation between Saudi Arabia and the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen.
The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and the Saudi Electronic Sports Federation also announced, on Thursday, the postponement of the finals of the “FIFAe 2026” tournament, which was scheduled to be held in Jeddah between October 16 and 25, 2026.
On Thursday, the Saudi-led military coalition announced the interception of a cruise missile in the Medina region.
Coalition spokesman Turki Al-Maliki revealed on Thursday that the Houthi attacks on King Khalid International Airport during the period from October 7 to 11 resulted in the killing of 17 people and the injury of 333 others. He added that the coalition had monitored 20 attacks on the airport since the beginning of the month.
The military spokesman for the Houthi group, Yahya Saree, denied carrying out a targeting operation towards Medina, and said that what “Saudi Arabia claims” about targeting towards Medina is “a great and major slander.”
Saree renewed his warning to airlines, saying that Saudi airspace and airports are unsafe, except for the airspace over Mecca and Medina.
Al-Maliki said that during the past days, the coalition forces destroyed 127 warehouses in mountainous areas in Yemen, along with a number of launching pads, calling on the Houthis to immediately stop attacks targeting civilians and civilian facilities.
The Saudi Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs for Public Diplomacy, Raed Qarmali, said on Thursday that the Houthis had rejected in recent weeks a request from Riyadh to meet in Muscat with the aim of reducing the escalation between the two sides.
The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jassem Al-Budaiwi, attributed the postponement of the summit to the Houthis’ continued attempts to target Saudi Arabia and its civilian objects, and to extend the suspension of operational operations at King Khalid International Airport.
In a development on the ground, forces affiliated with the internationally recognized Yemeni government announced, on Thursday, that they had repelled a Houthi attack on Mount Han, west of the city of Taiz.
On the humanitarian level, the World Food Program warned on Wednesday that the escalation in fighting was preventing it and its partners from reaching more than 600,000 people who depend on humanitarian aid in Taiz.
For its part, the United Nations welcomed, on Wednesday, the release of Sami Al-Kalabi, an employee in the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, who had been detained by the Houthis since 2024.
In its World Economic Outlook report issued on Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund expected that Saudi Arabia’s economy would contract by 3.3% in 2026.
