Houthi spokesperson tells Saudi oil workers to avoid sites it calls targets

The warning renews earlier threats to airlines and airports and follows the deadliest Houthi strikes yet reported inside Riyadh.

A Houthi military spokesperson has told workers at Saudi oil facilities to stay away from sites the group considers targets. The same statement renewed warnings to airlines and airports.

The warning comes after an explosion was reported inside Riyadh, a break from weeks of strikes that had been confined to the Jazan and Najran provinces. Houthi forces had earlier said they struck a Saudi camp in Jizan with ballistic missiles, a claim Saudi officials have not confirmed.

The group has also said its forces repelled coalition advances near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, after Yemeni government forces retook the port of Mocha and pushed toward the waterway.

The new warning marks the first time the campaign has named workers themselves, rather than infrastructure alone, as a target category. Saudi export volumes have held up through months of strikes confined to the provinces, with the pattern limited largely to claims and intercepts. If workers or carriers now curtail activity in response, that would be the first sign of the campaign reaching production and logistics directly, a shift that could push crude oil higher on reduced throughput rather than on headline risk alone.