Explosions rang out in the Saudi capital, as the kingdom was due to reopen Riyadh international airport despite Yemen's Houthis repeated attacks.

Riyadh's international airport said flights would resume on Sunday after a two-week closure following the Houthi strikes, with the Flight Radar monitoring site showing a plane taking off early in the day.

The militias have carried out waves of strikes on the airport, including an attack this month that killed 13 people and wounded more than 300, the deadliest in the kingdom in more than a decade.

Coalition forces intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi militia towards Riyadh, the coalition said.

Earlier, Saudi Arabia’s civil defence had issued an alert over a potential threat in the capital before announcing that the danger had passed, state television reported.

The statements did not provide further details on any casualties or damage.

Nearly a decade of negotiations with the Houthi militia has failed to secure a political settlement, Yemen’s foreign minister said, pledging to continue military operations until the country’s objectives are achieved and the group is disarmed.

Afrah Al-Zouba said the Houthi militia is using periods of calm to build up their arsenal and repeatedly block efforts to end the conflict.

The government will not accept negotiations that give the group an opportunity to rearm, she told journalists in Istanbul.

Al-Zouba cited 2016 talks, saying the Houthi militia refused to sign a proposed agreement after roughly 100 days of negotiations. She also accused them of thwarting subsequent peace efforts, including initiatives that began in 2022.

She said Operation “Dawn of Yemen” would continue “firmly” until it met its objectives.

US President Donald Trump has reiterated his position that Iran must never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.

“We obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury,” he said, referring to military operations in 2025 and then this February to May.

“We defeated them militarily, financially, and otherwise. We have to make sure that they never, ever have a nuclear weapon,” Trump added.

Israel has said it would close all land crossings with the occupied West Bank on election day.

"The political echelon approved a ban on the entry and exit of Palestinian workers throughout Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley, including industrial zones, as well as the closure of all land crossings throughout Election Day (Tuesday), October 27, 2026," the Israeli Army posted on Telegram.

Israeli forces turned Palestinian homes into barracks and observation posts after forcing residents to leave the city of Hebron on Saturday, day two of a military assault in the southern occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Troops took over homes in the Khallat Manna and Dahiyat al-Zaytoun areas of southern Hebron to be used as barracks, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, citing sources.

They also forced residents from homes in other neighbourhoods and used the properties as observation posts, sources said.

US president questions whether Tehran would honour an agreement, saying his aim is to ensure Iran can never develop a nuclear weapon as he weighs new strikes.

The Yemeni army has said that its forces had “neutralised” 307 Houthi militia members in 736 operations during the last 24 hours, destroying or damaging 68 military vehicles and weapons.

It said the operations targeted command centres, troop concentrations, reinforcements, weapons depots, and supply routes under the “Dawn of Yemen” offensive.

The army did not specify how many Houthi militia were killed or wounded.

Coalition forces intercepted and destroyed a drone over Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh region, spokesperson Colonel Turki al-Maliki said in a brief statement on X.

Yemen’s Houthi militia has previously launched drone and missile attacks against Saudi Arabia.

US President Donald Trump has said Washington could strike Iran as soon as “tomorrow,” or reach a “big, beautiful” agreement with Tehran, amid reports that he is weighing renewed attacks on Tehran.

“We’re thinking about doing it, and maybe tomorrow,” Trump told reporters when asked how far along he was in considering a possible attack.

“I may have to finish it off, or maybe they’ll make a deal,” Trump said.

King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh has said that, starting October 25, Terminal 1 would be designated for domestic flights and Terminal 2 for international flights operated by national carriers, after operations were halted following an attack by Houthi militias.

The Israeli army has raised its alert to the highest level and deployed tens of thousands of troops across several areas in preparation for possible “threats”, including missile launches from Iran or Lebanon, three days before the October 27 parliamentary elections, public broadcaster KAN reported.

The broadcaster said the army raised its readiness “to the highest level” ahead of the vote, deploying troops along the borders and across several fronts, including Gaza, Lebanon, the occupied West Bank and areas surrounding occupied East Jerusalem.

Authorities in the UAE have announced the closure of all beaches in the northern emirate of Ras Al Khaimah until further notice, a day after beaches in neighbouring Umm Al Quwain were closed following an oil spill from a tanker.

Ras Al Khaimah’s Public Services Department announced the closure in a Facebook statement, urging the public to follow instructions from the relevant authorities for their safety.

Saudi Arabia's civil defence has said it intercepted two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi militia toward the Mecca and Medina regions, with debris falling in several locations, including Jeddah, Taif and Rabigh.

Four Palestinians, including two women and a child, were killed and eight others wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza, medical sources told Anadolu.

A Palestinian child died of wounds sustained from Israeli army gunfire in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

Separately, in southern Gaza, a Palestinian woman was killed by army gunfire west of Khan Younis.

Another Palestinian woman identified as Fatima Abu Laban was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Tal al-Dhahab area of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.

A Palestinian woman was also wounded in the neck by Israeli gunfire in Beit Lahia.

Mohammad Anan al-Rawagh, a young Palestinian, was killed, and three others were wounded, one seriously, in an Israeli strike on the al-Rimal neighbourhood west of Gaza City.

The Russian embassy in Tehran has denied media reports that Russian experts had left the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran.

In a statement, the embassy said reports of the evacuation of embassy personnel and experts working at the plant “are FAKES".

It stressed that all activities were continuing normally.

Some international media outlets claimed Russian experts working at the plant had left Iran and that Moscow had sent an aircraft to evacuate them.

Saudi Arabia's civil defence agency has said it responded to falling shrapnel following the interception of Houthi missiles in the Mecca and Medina areas, the two holiest cities in Islam.

"Civil defence in the Mecca and Medina regions began to respond to the falling debris from the interception of two ballistic missiles launched by the terrorist Houthi militia," it said in a post on X, adding that some of the shrapnel fell in Wadi Mughamas outside Mecca.

The US has renewed calls for its citizens to reconsider travel to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, citing “armed conflict", “terrorism” and an increased threat of attacks by Iran and Houthi militia.

The US Embassy in Riyadh and the US Mission to the UAE publicised updated State Department advisories on Saturday.

For Saudi Arabia, the embassy warned of “an increase in potential armed attacks by the Houthi militia and Iranian efforts to target US government officials in the region.”

The advisory remained at Level 3, which urges Americans to “reconsider travel.” It also renewed a warning against travel to the kingdom’s border region with Yemen because of “terrorism” risks.

US President Donald Trump is weighing renewed strikes against Iran as the US sends more warships and Marines to the Middle East, while intelligence officials warn that Iranian plots against American personnel have reached “advanced stages", the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

Trump hinted at further military action during a rally in Florida on Friday, saying the US could launch another “little ‘Epic Fury'", referring to its previous campaign against Iran.

The Pentagon has reportedly presented Trump with options ranging from strikes on nuclear facilities and infrastructure, including bridges, to operations targeting Iranian islands. No final decision has been announced.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discussed the security situation in the Gulf and ongoing negotiation processes with his Qatari counterpart, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Foreign Ministry sources said.

Fidan spoke with Sheikh Mohammed by phone.