{"id":66894,"date":"2026-08-10T05:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=66894"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:11:44","slug":"houthis-attack-saudi-refinery-two-days-after-mecca-pact-questioning-the-reality-of-attack-on-one-attack-on-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/houthis-attack-saudi-refinery-two-days-after-mecca-pact-questioning-the-reality-of-attack-on-one-attack-on-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Houthis Attack Saudi Refinery Two Days After Mecca Pact | Questioning the Reality of Attack on One Attack on All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66896\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Houthi-Attack-Mecca-Pact-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Houthi-Attack-Mecca-Pact-web.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Houthi-Attack-Mecca-Pact-web-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Houthi-Attack-Mecca-Pact-web-696x454.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Houthi-Attack-Mecca-Pact-web-643x420.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Middle East Monitoring Desk Islamabad<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>As was feared and apprehended earlier after the signing of Mecca Pact by our media, Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis have attacked Saudi Aramco\u2019s Jazan refinery,on Sunday, two days after the kingdom signed a defense pact and now the question is the same that was arised, Turkiye and Pakistan would respond or not.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Yemeni military \u200cspokesperson said the attack on the port killed 07 people. The Yemeni transportation ministry said in a statement that the attack caused severe damage to the port\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis marks yet another assault on a vital civilian facility that serves citizens and contributes to boosting commercial and maritime activity in the Red Sea,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether or how either Pakistan or Turkey would join in any Saudi \u200cresponse \u200cto the latest attacks. Pakistan\u2019s military, air force, prime minister\u2019s office and information and foreign ministries did not respond to requests for comment and the Turkish government did not respond to a request on Sunday for comment on the implications of the refinery attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi energy ministry said a fire had broken out at the refinery but was later extinguished with no injuries and authorities were dealing with the incident, without giving a cause.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7Z4TqWiAue\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/what-is-the-importance-of-defense-pacts-when-pakistanis-are-not-safe-abroad-as-well-as-at-home-by-tazeen-akhtar\/\">What is the Importance of Defense Pacts When Pakistanis are not Safe &#8211; Abroad as well as at Home ? by Tazeen Akhtar<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;What is the Importance of Defense Pacts When Pakistanis are not Safe &#8211; Abroad as well as at Home ? by Tazeen Akhtar&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/what-is-the-importance-of-defense-pacts-when-pakistanis-are-not-safe-abroad-as-well-as-at-home-by-tazeen-akhtar\/embed\/#?secret=KTGB4OSCG5#?secret=7Z4TqWiAue\" data-secret=\"7Z4TqWiAue\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Houthis used a drone \u2060to target the refinery, military spokesperson Yahya Saree posted on X. They had struck Aramco sites before in Jazan, which processes 400,000 barrels of crude oil per \u2060day in southwestern Saudi Arabia. They had also hit Yanbu on the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, Saree said the Houthis carried out missile and drone strikes on the Yemeni Red Sea port city of Mocha.<\/p>\n<p>The port, controlled by the Aden-based \u200bgovernment, is close to the strategic Bab el-Mandeb strait, \u2060which links the southern Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. Should it be closed, Saudi Arabia would be deprived of an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Three Yemeni government \u200bsources told Reuters that air defenses were engaging drones launched by the Houthis towards the commercial quay \u200band storage in the port.<\/p>\n<p>Saree said the Houthi strikes targeted Saudi troops and weapons arsenal in the area. There \u200bwas no Saudi \u200ccomment on the attacks in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Rashad al-Alimi, head of Yemen\u2019s Saudi-backed presidential council, on Sunday briefed U.S. Mission to Yemen Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires Neil Hop on the developments, according to a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Houthis\u2019 attack put a responsibility on the international community, foremost among them the U.S., to \u201cmove beyond only containing the Houthi threat to addressing its sources and instruments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday, as \u200bthe alliance was announced, that it was not directed against Iran or any other country, but rather served as a general pledge to support the three allies\u2019 security.<\/p>\n<p>Fidan said the allies would decide through consultations what degree, form, and format of support they would ask for in the event of an attack on any of them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"PXbHBnNqUq\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-may-2026\/\">Pakistan in the World \u2013 May &#8211; June  2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pakistan in the World \u2013 May &#8211; June  2026&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-may-2026\/embed\/#?secret=XRnZLZFShV#?secret=PXbHBnNqUq\" data-secret=\"PXbHBnNqUq\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East Monitoring Desk Islamabad As was feared and apprehended earlier after the signing of Mecca Pact by our media, Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis have attacked Saudi Aramco\u2019s Jazan refinery,on Sunday, two days after the kingdom signed a defense pact and now the question is the same that was arised, Turkiye and Pakistan would respond or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2115,972,79,132,197,8672,2070,48,6516,2114,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66894"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66906,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66894\/revisions\/66906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}