16 August,2026 08:14 AM IST | Dubai | Agencies
Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon draws sharp criticism from the (inset) Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam. Pic/PTI
A tanker owned by Abu Dhabi's state-owned oil and gas company ADNOC was attacked while transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, said on Saturday. In a statement Saturday the United Arab Emirates blamed Iran for the attack and called on it to stop the unprovoked strikes.
Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least nine people on Saturday. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam criticised Israel's airstrikes saying, "The seven martyrs of the Israeli airstrike on the town of Ansar are not military infrastructure and the children and women killed were not military targets." The Israeli military said that it struck Hezbollah infrastructure. The military added that it will not allow Hezbollah to harm Israeli civilians or soldiers "and will continue to operate to remove threats."
Yemen's military said on Saturday the Iranian-backed Houthis attacked a crucial Red Sea port under the control of the internationally recognised government, killing at least one security guard. Colonel Majed al-Nazili, the spokesman for the military, said in a statement that the Houthis fired six ballistic missiles in a "new terrorist aggression that targeted a vital civilian facility." The attack was the latest by the Houthis on government-held areas and on Saudi Arabia and part of an escalation threatening to plunge Yemen into a full-fledged conflict. A 2022 ceasefire stopped heavy fighting during the country's civil war.
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