As the regional conflict entered its second week, Gulf countries reported missile and drone attacks on Sunday, while Iran pledged to continue its operations against neighboring nations.
Following loud explosions in Dubai and Bahrain’s Manama the day before, Kuwait’s national oil firm declared a “precautionary” decrease to production, and Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait all claimed further attacks.
Iran fired two cruise missiles and ten ballistic missiles at Qatar a day earlier, according to the country’s defense ministry on Sunday. The majority of the missiles were intercepted and did not result in any injuries.
Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said Sunday it had intercepted and destroyed 15 drones that entered the kingdom’s airspace, including six east of capital Riyadh.
Kuwait’s military also said Sunday that it had responded “to a wave of hostile drones that penetrated the country’s airspace”.
Fuel tanks at Kuwait’s international airport were targeted in a drone attack, the military added.
It called the drone attack “a direct targeting of vital infrastructure”.
A separate statement said “some civilian facilities sustained material damage as a result of falling fragments and debris from interception operations”.
The attacks came despite Iran’s president apologising to Gulf countries for earlier strikes. He had said they would no longer be targeted unless strikes were launched from their territory first.
But hours later, Iran’s judiciary chief said strikes would continue on sites in Gulf countries which were “at the disposal of the enemy”.
UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan said in a rare televised address that the Emirates were in “a period of war” and “will emerge stronger” from it.
Dubai authorities said Saturday that a a Pakistani national had been killed by debris from an “aerial interception”.
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