Coalition forces intercepted and destroyed a drone over Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh region, spokesperson Colonel Turki al-Maliki said in a brief statement on X.

Yemen’s Houthi militia has previously launched drone and missile attacks against Saudi Arabia.

US President Donald Trump has said Washington could strike Iran as soon as “tomorrow,” or reach a “big, beautiful” agreement with Tehran, amid reports that he is weighing renewed attacks on Tehran.

“We’re thinking about doing it, and maybe tomorrow,” Trump told reporters when asked how far along he was in considering a possible attack.

“I may have to finish it off, or maybe they’ll make a deal,” Trump said.

King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh has said that, starting October 25, Terminal 1 would be designated for domestic flights and Terminal 2 for international flights operated by national carriers, after operations were halted following an attack by Houthi militias.

The Israeli army has raised its alert to the highest level and deployed tens of thousands of troops across several areas in preparation for possible “threats”, including missile launches from Iran or Lebanon, three days before the October 27 parliamentary elections, public broadcaster KAN reported.

The broadcaster said the army raised its readiness “to the highest level” ahead of the vote, deploying troops along the borders and across several fronts, including Gaza, Lebanon, the occupied West Bank and areas surrounding occupied East Jerusalem.

Authorities in the UAE have announced the closure of all beaches in the northern emirate of Ras Al Khaimah until further notice, a day after beaches in neighbouring Umm Al Quwain were closed following an oil spill from a tanker.

Ras Al Khaimah’s Public Services Department announced the closure in a Facebook statement, urging the public to follow instructions from the relevant authorities for their safety.

Saudi Arabia's civil defence has said it intercepted two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi militia toward the Mecca and Medina regions, with debris falling in several locations, including Jeddah, Taif and Rabigh.

Four Palestinians, including two women and a child, were killed and eight others wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza, medical sources told Anadolu.

A Palestinian child died of wounds sustained from Israeli army gunfire in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

Separately, in southern Gaza, a Palestinian woman was killed by army gunfire west of Khan Younis.

Another Palestinian woman identified as Fatima Abu Laban was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Tal al-Dhahab area of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.

A Palestinian woman was also wounded in the neck by Israeli gunfire in Beit Lahia.

Mohammad Anan al-Rawagh, a young Palestinian, was killed, and three others were wounded, one seriously, in an Israeli strike on the al-Rimal neighbourhood west of Gaza City.

The Russian embassy in Tehran has denied media reports that Russian experts had left the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran.

In a statement, the embassy said reports of the evacuation of embassy personnel and experts working at the plant “are FAKES".

It stressed that all activities were continuing normally.

Some international media outlets claimed Russian experts working at the plant had left Iran and that Moscow had sent an aircraft to evacuate them.

Saudi Arabia's civil defence agency has said it responded to falling shrapnel following the interception of Houthi missiles in the Mecca and Medina areas, the two holiest cities in Islam.

"Civil defence in the Mecca and Medina regions began to respond to the falling debris from the interception of two ballistic missiles launched by the terrorist Houthi militia," it said in a post on X, adding that some of the shrapnel fell in Wadi Mughamas outside Mecca.

The US has renewed calls for its citizens to reconsider travel to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, citing “armed conflict", “terrorism” and an increased threat of attacks by Iran and Houthi militia.

The US Embassy in Riyadh and the US Mission to the UAE publicised updated State Department advisories on Saturday.

For Saudi Arabia, the embassy warned of “an increase in potential armed attacks by the Houthi militia and Iranian efforts to target US government officials in the region.”

The advisory remained at Level 3, which urges Americans to “reconsider travel.” It also renewed a warning against travel to the kingdom’s border region with Yemen because of “terrorism” risks.