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Saudi Arabian authorities said on 13 September 2026 that a Houthi attack wounded two people and caused damage to a mosque, according to reporting carried in Haaretz's live coverage that day. The incident was attributed to Yemen's Houthi movement, which has periodically fired drones and missiles across the border at Saudi territory and at Saudi-backed forces inside Yemen. Saudi officials publicised the casualties and the damage to the religious site as evidence of the group's continued cross-border attacks. The reported attack came amid renewed Houthi ground activity in Yemen, including footage released a day earlier by the group's Ansarullah media outlet purporting to show a Saudi-backed force's truck set ablaze by Houthi fighters. The Houthis have remained an active front in the wider regional conflict, having launched missiles and drones at Israel and at shipping in the Red Sea alongside their war with the Saudi-led coalition. A direct strike on Saudi soil raises the risk of unravelling the fragile Saudi-Houthi de-escalation track that has largely held in recent years.