The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain reported the latest Iranian missile and drone attacks on Monday morning.
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates reported a missile attack early morning that its air defense systems were responding to. “Air defense systems are currently responding to a missile threat,” the country’s National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority said in a post on X.
Bahrain’s Ministry of Health said that an Iranian drone attack which targeted the Gulf nation’s island of Sitra overnight wounded 32 civilians. All of the wounded were Bahraini citizens and there were four “serious cases”, including children, said the ministry in a statement carried by the Gulf nation’s state news agency.
A strike targeting Bahrain’s sprawling Al Ma’ameer oil facility caused a fire at the complex along with material damage, state media said on Monday, noting that there were no casualties.
Bahrain’s state-owned energy company Bapco declared force majeure after waves of Iranian strikes targeted the country’s energy installations, the company said in a statement on Monday.
The Saudi Defence Ministry said it had thwarted a drone attack targeting an oil field in the kingdom’s east, near the Emirati border. “Four drones heading towards the Shaybah oil field were intercepted and destroyed,” a Defense Ministry statement said.
Saudi Arabia lambasted Iran on Monday, calling Tehran’s attacks targeting the kingdom and their Gulf neighbors “reprehensible”, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry.
Saudi Arabia “renews the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s categorical condemnation of the reprehensible Iranian aggressions against the Kingdom, the Gulf Cooperation Council states, a number of Arab and Islamic countries, and friendly nations, which cannot be accepted or justified under any circumstances,” the statement posted on the ministry’s official X account read.
Kuwait’s Defense Ministry said the country’s air defenses were working to intercept a new missile and drone attack on the Gulf nation on Monday, as Iran continues its retaliatory strikes in its war with the United States and Israel. On Sunday, Kuwait was targeted by seven missiles and five drones, according to figures released by authorities.
