Saudi Arabia and the Houthis: Riyadh strikes oil sites near Sanaa, an Aramco building hit in return
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IsraelIsrael is watching the Saudi-Houthi duel through its own southern border: Jerusalem sees a risk of a surprise attack by land or sea from Yemen and is preparing Eilat and the Edom division.
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ChinaBeijing weighs the Saudi-Houthi escalation in light of the fragility of the oil market: Aramco facilities threatened, global stocks at a level deemed dangerous and the Strait of Hormuz in the background.
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the narrative puts the threat to Israel in the foreground rather than the consequences in Yemen.
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the Jerusalem Post refers to the Houthis by the term "terrorists" in the narrative.
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ChinaRelies on military sources from the belligerents
the account reports each side's tolls without independent corroboration.