Morning recap

Morning recap

Good Morning Middle East Eye readers, If you are just joining us, here are key developments from across the region and beyond: * At least 12 people were killed and 309 others injured in an attack on Saudi Arabia's King Khalid International airport in Riyadh as Iran-backed Houthis escalated the campaign they launched this summer against the kingdom. * President Donald Trump says the US ‘may’ join Saudi strikes against Yemen’s Houthis following the latest attack on Riyadh airport. * Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said his country reaffirms “commitment to Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and security", while condemning the attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh as “heinous". * Schools in Riyadh will move to remote learning for a week, according to an email sent Sunday to parents citing an order from the education ministry, following the deadly attacks on the capital's airport. * The ⁠UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said they received a report of an “incident involving a tanker and military forces” in the Gulf of Oman, hours after the US Central Command (Centcom) said it disabled a vessel in the waterway. * At least six people have been injured by Israeli gunfire in Khan Younis, according to the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported. * The Indian consulate in Dubai has said that all 22 crew members of a vessel involved in “an incident” off the Emirati coast of Ras al-Khaimah have been rescued. * United Nations General Secretary Antonio Guterres has "strongly" condemned Saturday's "lethal attacks by the Houthis" on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. *US Central Command (Centcom) has said it has redirected 135 commercial vessels and disabled four since the resumption of the US naval blockade against Iran on 14 July. * A tanker has reported being hit by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, causing a fire on board, according to ⁠⁠UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO). * The US military said it had disabled a commercial cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman after the ship's crew ignored warnings and attempted to run an ongoing naval blockade against Iran. * A total of 4, 386 Lebanese have been killed and 12,424 injured in Israeli military attacks from 2 March to 10 October, according to Lebanon's Public Healthy Ministry.

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