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Grand Mosque head slams Houthi strikes on Makkah, Madinah as coalition defenses thwart attacks

MAKKAH: The head of Islam’s holiest sites on Sunday condemned repeated ballistic missile and drone attacks by Yemen’s Houthi militia toward Makkah and Madinah, warning that the security and sanctity of the Two Holy Mosques remain a “red line that must not be breached.” Sheikh Abdulrahman Al-Sudais, president of Religious Affairs at the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque, said the persistent assaults reveal the militia’s “criminal approach” and malicious intent toward Muslims and their sacred