Seven Killed and 30 Wounded in Houthi Attack on Mocha

The death toll from Houthi attacks on Yemen’s government-held port of Mocha rose to seven on Monday, with 30 people reported wounded. The wounded total included both military personnel and civilians. The attacks used missiles and drones during two rounds in less than 24 hours.

Houthi officials said their forces targeted weapons storage and Saudi troop concentrations. The internationally recognized government’s side said residential areas and port facilities were struck. Yemeni officials reported damage to piers, buildings, commercial cargo and food stocks.

Mocha was expanded as an alternative to Hodeida, the major Red Sea port under Houthi control. The Bab el-Mandeb passage near Yemen connects Red Sea traffic with the Gulf of Aden and routes between Europe and Asia. A 2022 truce reduced the intensity of Yemen’s civil war without producing a final peace agreement. Damage to cargo-handling equipment or stored food can affect port operations beyond the moment of an attack, but the report did not provide a complete engineering assessment or a closure notice. The verified record therefore supports casualty and damage reporting without assuming the duration of disruption.

The Houthis also claimed a drone operation against a Saudi Aramco refinery in Jazan. Saudi authorities acknowledged a fire at the refinery but did not attribute its cause and reported no casualties there. The two sides’ incompatible target descriptions could not be independently reconciled in the available reporting. The refinery claim is similarly bounded: the Houthis stated that they attacked it, while Saudi confirmation established only that a fire occurred. No publicly cited forensic evidence connected the two events at the edition deadline.

The reporting available at the edition deadline did not resolve this point: independent access to the impact sites was limited, the parties disputed the targets and the refinery fire’s cause was not established. The next dated records are a port authority operating-status report and any wider Saudi or Yemeni military response.