KUWAIT CITY: Iran struck Gulf infrastructure on Sunday, hitting fuel tanks at Kuwait's international airport and damaging a desalination plant in Bahrain as Tehran pressed its missile and drone campaign against its neighbours into a second week. Two border guards were also killed "while performing their national duty", Kuwait's interior ministry said without elaborating on the circumstances. Neighbouring countries have borne much of Tehran's response after the US and Israel launched a massive air campaign against Iran, with 16 people, eight of them civilians, killed in the Gulf states since the war began.
Gulf countries have said their territory has not been used in attacks against Iran, and before the war began they repeatedly said they would not allow such a move. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait all reported new attacks, after loud explosions were heard in Dubai and Bahrain's Manama a day earlier.
Fuel tanks at Kuwait's international airport were targeted in a drone attack, the military said. The official Kuwait News Agency said a fire at the airport was brought under control, reporting no "significant injuries". The military called the drone attack "a direct targeting of vital infrastructure". A separate statement said "some civilian facilities sustained material damage as a result of falling fragments and debris from interception operations".
Bahrain's interior ministry said on Sunday that an Iranian drone attack damaged a water desalination plant, accusing Tehran of "randomly" targeting civilian infrastructure. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Saturday that it had struck the United States' Juffair base in Bahrain, adding it had been used to attack an Iranian desalination plant earlier in the day. Bahrain's national communication office later said the Iranian attack on the desalination facility had no impact on water supplies or network capacity. Falling missile debris also injured three people and damaged a university building in the Muharraq area, the interior ministry said in a separate statement. — AFP
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