Yemen rebels’ missile strikes oil facility in Jiddah

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES » Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they struck a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jiddah early Monday with a new cruise missile, just hours after the kingdom finished hosting its virtual Group of 20 leaders summit. A projectile struck a fuel tank at the Jiddah distribution station and ignited a fire around 3:50 a.m., an unnamed Energy Ministry official said in a statement carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency. Col. Turki al-Maliki, a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, blamed the 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.”