Attacks continue to hit the UAE, Qatar

Dubai - Falling debris from a missile intercept killed one person on Tuesday in the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi, authorities said, as Iran presses its attacks against Gulf countries in the Middle East war.
The incident took place in the Bani Yas area, 'following the interception of a ballistic missile by air defences', the Abu Dhabi Media Office said on X.
The day before, a Palestinian national was killed on the edge of the city when a missile hit his car. It brings the death toll in the United Arab Emirates since the start of the Iran war to eight, with six civilians dead as well as two military personnel killed in a helicopter accident.

Early Tuesday morning, the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority announced the temporary and full closure of the country’s airspace to ensure the safety of flights and air crews, as well as to safeguard the UAE’s territory, which was later resumed after drone attacks.
The Gulf has borne the brunt of Iran's attacks in response to US-Israeli strikes that sparked the Middle East war, with Tehran targeting US assets but also civilian infrastructure.

On the east coast of the country, the oil industrial zone of Fujairah was hit on Tuesday morning, sparking a fire but causing no injuries, local authorities said.
It was the second day in a row that the site was hit, with a source telling AFP on Monday that oil storage loading had been shut down by an attack.

An AFP journalist heard several explosions in Doha on Tuesday, a day after similar blasts were heard across the Qatari capital.
Qatar, like several other Gulf nations, has been targeted by both drones and missiles in recent days.
'The Ministry of Defense of the State of Qatar announces that armed forces intercepted a missile attack which targeted the State of Qatar,' the defence ministry posted on X.
In nearby Dubai, an AFP journalist heard three explosions after a mobile phone alert warned residents of the United Arab Emirates' most populous city to 'immediately seek a safe place' over 'potential missile threats'.

Iran has fired more than 1,900 missiles and drones at the UAE, more than any other country targeted by Tehran since the start of the war.

Iran's top diplomat, Abbas Araghchi, said this week that US bases in the Middle East had been used to launch air raids and that missiles had been fired from the UAE to strike Iran's Kharg Island, though UAE officials have denied the claim.

The strikes have upended travel plans in the financial hub, despite its air defence intercepting the vast majority of projectiles.

Missiles and drones rained on the United Arab Emirates on Monday, killing one civilian, disrupting the world's busiest airport, and sparking a fire at a crucial oil hub.
Iran has kept up strikes on the UAE since the war erupted in the Middle East, disrupting commercial air travel and targeting energy installations on both sides of the Strait of Hormuz.
The attacks have piled economic pressure on the oil-rich country, which also serves as a hub for international travel.
In the usually quiet northern emirate of Umm Al Quwain, a drone attack damaged an unspecified building but inflicted no casualties, authorities said.
In the eastern emirate of Fujairah, a drone attack on oil infrastructure sparked a fire, authorities said, reporting no injuries and adding that 'efforts continue to bring it under control'.
The blaze came days after an AFP journalist saw smoke rising from a major energy installation in Fujairah.
A pipeline to the emirate allows a large proportion of the country's oil exports to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway shut by Iran in response to US-Israeli attacks that sparked the war.
The UAE's state-owned oil giant ADNOC has halted the loading of oil into storage tanks at their Fujairah facility, a source with knowledge of the operations told AFP, following repeated strikes on the energy installation there.
'ADNOC oil loading at Fujairah is suspended,' the source told AFP.
A Palestinian civilian was killed on the outskirts of the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi when a missile hit a car, the state media office said.
The UAE has reported seven deaths since the war began, including five civilians and two military personnel, who died in a helicopter crash blamed on a technical malfunction.