Saudi-led Coalition Says Huthi Attack on Jeddah Oil Facility Targets Global Supplies

Saudi-led Coalition Says Huthi Attack on Jeddah Oil Facility Targets Global Supplies

Yemen's Houthi rebels said they struck a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jeddah on Monday with a new cruise missile, just hours after the kingdom finished hosting its virtual Group of 20 leaders summit.

An unnamed official at the kingdom's Ministry of Energy acknowledged the attack in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency late Monday. It came after videos of a small explosion at a Saudi Arabian Oil Co. facility in Jeddah circulated on social media all day. A projectile struck a fuel tank at the Jeddah distribution station and ignited a fire, the official said.

Col. Turki al-Maliki, a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, blamed the Yemeni rebels for what he called "a cowardly attack which not only targets the kingdom, but also targets the nerve center of the world's energy supply and the security of the global economy."

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation have condemned the attack, according to the Al-Arabiya news network.

Brig. Gen. Yehia Sarie, a Houthi military spokesman, tweeted that the rebels fired a new Quds-2 cruise missile at the facility. He posted a satellite image online that