MEP: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office advise against all travel to within 10km of the border with Yemen and against all but essential travel between 10km and 80km of this border. If you’re currently in an area to which the FCO advise against all but essential travel, you should consider whether you have an essential reason to remain. If you do not, you should leave the area.
On 27 October a SCUD Missile was fired from Houthi-held territory in Yemen, apparently targeting Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport.
This followed previous missile attacks on 8 October, targeting an air base in Taif; on 9 October landing near an American warship in the Red Sea; and on 10 October when two missiles were fired into Jizan region along the Saudi/Yemeni border.
The previous week, an Emirati-leased ship came under rocket fire in the southern Red Sea and sustained serious damage.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia has been leading coalition air strikes in Yemen following the request for support from President Hadi to deter continued Houthi anger. Clashes along the Saudi-Yemeni border continue, resulting in both military and civilian casualties.
The Saudi authorities have declared ‘out of bounds’ a zone of 20km from the entire northern border of the country, and from the border in the Hafr Al-Batin and Khafji areas in the Eastern Province to be dangerous areas.
It warned for everyone neared to the area will punished by up to 30 months’ imprisonment and a SR 25,000 fine. Saudi authorities have also warned tours into military or border posts regions.
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