Claim: A video depicts the aftermath of Yemen’s recent attacks on Saudi Arabia’s airports.
Fact: This claim is false as the video is not from 2026 and does not show any airport in Saudi Arabia. It dates back to 2022 and shows a fire at an Aramco petroleum distribution facility in Jeddah. According to credible news outlets, the fire was caused after a retaliatory attack carried out by the Houthi group at the time.
A Facebook user, Shahzab Qure Xhii posted a video, with a caption in Urdu in stating:
سعودی عرب کے تمام ہوائی اڈوں پر بمباری کی گئی ہے۔ 👇ابھا ایئرپورٹ سروس سے باہر ہے؛ یہ مکمل طور پر تباہ ہو گیا ہے.
[Translation: “All airports in Saudi Arabia have been bombarded. 👇 Now the airport is out of service; it is completely destroyed. Yemen: ☠️”]
Screenshot from Facebook
Houthi’s attack on Saudi Arabia’s airport
On 13 July 2026, Yemen’s Houthi group attacked the Abha International Airport with missiles and drones. It was in retaliation to an attack on Sanaa airport, carried out by the internationally recognised Yemeni government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.
According to a statement by the Yemeni government, the attack on Sanaa airport’s runway was carried out on 13 July 2026 to prevent the landing of a plane carrying a delegation of Houthis arriving from Iran. A report by the Human Rights Watch added that, “Hours later, the Houthis attacked Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia with dozens of ballistic missiles and drones. The attack was ‘in response to the Saudi attack against Sanaa airport, according to the Houthi spokesperson.”
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check reverse-searched the first keyframe in the video to check the year this video is from and if it does show a Saudi Arabian airport. Upon this search, we found that the keyframes match a video from four years ago that shows a fire in Saudi Arabia’s Aramco storage facility on 25 March 2022. It is not from the recent Abha International Airport attack.
News outlets like Al Jazeera and Reuters reported on 26 March 2022 that the fire was caused by an attack from Yemen’s Houthis.The group launched an attack on 25 March 2022 on the energy facility in retaliation to a military led operation by Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen.
Soch Fact Check compared the video in the claim with an official Youtube Al Jazeera English video posted on 26 March 2022. As outlined below in a side-by-side comparison, the video in the claim is identical to the first 21 seconds of Al Jazeera’s coverage of the Houthi attack.
A keyframe from the video being fact-checked and the image on the left is from Al Jazeera English’s YouTube video
The caption, therefore, makes a false claim as the video shows a fire at the Saudi Arabian Aramco storage facility in 2022, and not any recent attack on a Saudi Arabian airport.
Virality
On X, a post sharing the claim acquired 57K views.
On Facebook, the video received 1.3K views and 38 likes while another post received about 1K views with 64 likes.
Conclusion: The video does not show any recent attack on a Saudi airport in 2026, but a fire at an Aramco storage facility in Jeddah in 2022. According to credible news outlets, the fire was caused after a retaliatory attack carried out on the facility by Yemen’s Houthis at the time.
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