Yemen and the Red Sea

Two accounts report an Ansarallah missile striking near an Al Arabiya crew reporting live at Bab el-Mandeb

ATTACK
Location
Bab el-Mandeb strait, Yemen
Actors
Houthis
Importance
Standard

An account posted at 17:54 UTC on 5 October 2026 said that a crew from Al Arabiya was reporting live from Bab al-Mandab when an Ansarallah missile struck nearby, sending the reporter and camera crew scrambling. A second account posted the same incident at 18:01 UTC with video, naming the correspondent as Mohammed Al-Ashqar and describing the projectile as a Houthi missile. Both posts present footage of a live broadcast interrupted by a strike. Neither post gives a clock time for the strike or an exact impact point, and no official account of the strike was found in the material reviewed.

Why it matters

An interruption of a live broadcast from the Bab el-Mandeb approach is the kind of strike that also reaches shipping in the approaches to the strait.

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Video attached to the post, presented by the account as showing an Ansarallah missile striking near the Al-Arabiya correspondent at Bab el-Mandeb. The video was not reviewed separately in this pass.

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Evidence: Account post on an Ansarallah missile strike during an Al Arabiya live report at Bab al-Mandab, Account video post of a Houthi missile striking near Al-Arabiya correspondent Mohammed Al-Ashqar at Bab el-Mandeb

Reported by two accounts relaying the incident from footage of an Al Arabiya live report. The strike was not confirmed by an official account in the material reviewed, and the exact impact point and time are not published.