Turki al-Maliki

Turki al-Maliki, spokesman for the Saudi-led Coalition, said on 24 July 2026 that air strikes on Houthi-held military sites around Hodeidah hit targets used to threaten commercial shipping, that Hodeidah port itself was not hit, and that Hodeidah, Ras Issa and Salif all remain open to navigation. Houthi-affiliated media said the strikes hit telecommunications facilities and Kamaran Island, with a woman injured; the Coalition disputes those specifics.

Al-Maliki has served as the Saudi-led Coalition's spokesman since the Coalition's 2015 intervention in Yemen's civil war on behalf of the internationally recognised government against the Houthi movement, making him the Coalition's primary public voice on strike claims and denials throughout that conflict.

His account is a Coalition claim, not an independent verification, and it arrives the same day the Houthis said they struck Jazan industrial city in Saudi Arabia in response, in a rapid exchange that neither side's account has yet been checked against the other.