Families forced from their homes appeal for protection as Israel announces plans for demolitions in the occupied West Bank city.

The Houthi militia claimed that the capital, Sanaa, and the city of Mokha in the Taiz governorate had come under a series of air strikes by Saudi Arabia.

The Houthi-run Yemen News Agency quoted an unnamed local source as saying that “Saudi aircraft carried out a series of air strikes on various areas of Mokha, west of the Taiz governorate.”

The source said aircraft were still flying over the area but provided no further details on the outcome of the attacks.

Separately, the agency said Saudi aircraft carried out a series of airstrikes on Sanaa, targeting the areas of Asr and Hamdan.

Two Palestinians, including a woman, were killed and four others wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza, medical sources told Anadolu.

The attacks came amid continued Israeli violations of a ceasefire agreement in place since October 10, 2025.

Medical sources said Fatima Abu Laban, a Palestinian woman, was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Tal al-Dhahab area of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.

Another Palestinian woman was wounded in the neck by Israeli gunfire in Beit Lahia, the sources added.

Two children were killed, three civilians wounded and four people abducted in Houthi attacks in Yemen's southwestern Taiz province over 24 hours, a rights group said Saturday.

In a statement, the Yemen Network for Rights and Freedoms said it had "documented 21 crimes and violations by the Houthis over the past 24 hours in Taiz governorate," including the firing of around 213 projectiles at residential areas.

"Three civilians, including two women, sustained various injuries, while four other residents were abducted and taken to unknown locations," the group said.

The network also accused the Houthis of continuing their siege and restrictions on civilian movement and the delivery of essential supplies.

It said the Houthis raided and looted three homes in the al-Hujariya area south of Taiz and damaged seven others, including two that were completely destroyed.

Saudi Arabia's Civil Defence announced on Saturday that danger has passed in four areas of the kingdom following earlier alerts warning of a "potential danger."

The all-clear covered the Jeddah, Taif and Yanbu governorates, as well as Mecca province, according to statements issued by the Civil Defence on US social media platform X.

The agency urged people to follow its instructions and "avoid gathering and filming" in the affected areas.

The warnings came amid escalating hostilities between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthi militia, including missile and drone attacks targeting the kingdom.

Türkiye condemned Friday’s deadly armed attack on a church in Jordan's Karak province, expressing solidarity with the country and its people.

"We strongly condemn the armed attack carried out against a church in Jordan's Karak province," a Turkish Foreign Ministry statement said Saturday.

The ministry extended condolences to the families of those killed and the Jordanian people, while wishing a speedy recovery to those injured.

"We once again emphasize our solidarity with Jordan in the face of this heinous attack targeting the country's unity and peace," it said.

A Saudi-led ​coalition fighting Yemen's ‌Houthis said it destroyed two ballistic missiles fired ​by the Iran-aligned ​group towards Taif and Yanbu on Saturday, as fighting between the sides continued.

Saudi Arabia's Civil Defence on Saturday briefly issued alerts warning of potential danger in Taif and Yanbu, as well as the holy city of Mecca and its second-largest city, Jeddah.

The service issued notices around 10 minutes later, saying the danger had passed.

The death toll from Friday’s attack on mourners attending a funeral at Hamoud Church in Jordan's southern Karak governorate rose to eight, the country's health minister said Saturday.

In remarks carried by Jordan's Al-Mamlaka TV, Health Minister Ibrahim al-Badour said: "One of those injured in the terrorist act remains in critical condition."

On Friday, Jordanian Public Security Director Obaidallah Maaytah had said that seven people were killed and 27 others wounded in the attack.

Following the incident, Jordanian Prime Minister Jafar Hassan ordered three days of nationwide mourning beginning Friday, October 23.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Palestinian Authority was in for a "big surprise" after he ordered a major military operation in response to an attack on soldiers in the West Bank.

Netanyahu, days ahead of elections, declined to answer directly when he was asked if he would dismantle the Palestinian Authority but said he favoured "ruse and surprise".

"We transformed the Middle East. I said that we would change things and we have," Netanyahu told i24News in an interview conducted late on Friday. "There is a very big surprise for the Palestinian Authority as well."

Netanyahu on Friday promised a massive military response after Palestinian militants killed two Israeli soldiers near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

The US embassy in Amman said security had been stepped up at malls, foreign embassies and other locations across Jordan after Friday's attack on a church in Jordan's Karak governorate.

Seven people were killed and dozens were injured when gunmen opened fire ​during a funeral at a church, the head of the country's Public Security Directorate said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Iraq’s prime minister said on Friday that no US troops are left in the country, including in advisory roles, as Baghdad moves to bring all weapons under state control by next June.

Ali Faleh Al-Zaidi told the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that the absence of foreign forces had removed the justification armed factions previously cited for retaining their weapons.

He stressed that the government’s decision to restrict weapons to state institutions was final and irreversible.

“By June 30, 2027, there will be no weapons outside the framework of the state,” he said.

Al-Zaidi said the government reached agreements concerning weapons held by three armed factions and is negotiating with four others to complete the process.

“Iraq is a state that has factions, not factions that own a state,” he added.

The Saudi-led coalition has said that its air defences had intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by the Houthi militia toward the Saudi capital Riyadh.

Coalition spokesperson Turki al-Maliki said in a statement on US social media platform X that a ballistic missile had been intercepted and destroyed, without providing details on its origin or intended target.

US intelligence has found that Iran has sharply stepped up efforts to target American officials in the Middle East and other countries, with lethal plots reaching advanced stages, US news outlet Axios reported.

The report cited a memo dated October 23 from Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which said the information is relevant to more personnel than are currently cleared to see it.

The one-page unclassified memo does not name targets, countries outside the Middle East, or the nature of the plots.

Two explosions rang out in Riyadh early on Saturday, an AFP journalist in the Saudi capital said, as Yemen's Houthi militia keep up strikes on the country.

The Saudi civil defence said an early warning system was activated to alert residents to a potential threat.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis said it had downed a ballistic missile heading towards Riyadh, along with a drone in the Eastern province.

US reduces staffing at four Middle East embassies as Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton sends memo to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, claiming Iran has "substantially increased efforts to target US personnel."

US President Donald Trump has suggested Washington could launch another military operation against Iran, urging Tehran to accept US demands to end the conflict.

“We may do another little epic fury,” Trump told supporters at a rally in Florida, referring to the US-Israeli war with Iran that began on February 28.

Trump urged Iranian officials to reach an agreement but expressed doubt that they would do so.

“If they are smart, they’ll just say, ‘let’s get down to business,’” he said. “But I doubt they’ll do that.”

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has said that two supertankers struck naval mines in the southern Strait of Hormuz, triggering explosions and fires that disabled their engines.

In a statement carried by state news agency IRNA, the IRGC Navy said intense fires in the vessels’ engine rooms left both tankers disabled.

Military intervention is by no means a solution, Turkish top diplomat Hakan Fidan says after the R4+E3 meeting in Istanbul.

Time is running out to get aid into Taiz, besieged Houthi militia who are preventing supplies from reaching Yemen's third-largest city, the United Nations has said.

Houthi militia has encircled Taiz since early October, blocking the road that links it to Aden, the interim capital of the Saudi-backed, internationally-recognised government.

"Safe, sustained and unimpeded humanitarian access is urgently needed so that essential supplies and life-saving assistance can reach people in need," said the UN humanitarian agency OCHA.

"It's 20 days and counting since Taiz has been cut off," said OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke.

"We are seeing increasingly that the fighting makes it impossible for us to get in and impossible for people to get out," he told a press conference in Geneva.