Kuwait City: A missile strike hit a power and desalination facility in Kuwait prior to midday on Friday, as Gulf states continued to endure Iranian counterstrikes on day 35 of the US-Israel conflict with Tehran.
Kuwaiti officials pinned the desalination plant assault on Iran, while withholding details on the site’s identity or damage scale. The blow landed shortly after drone incursions at dawn pummeled the Al-Ahmadi oil refinery for the third occasion, sparking blazes in multiple processing sections, according to state outlet KUNA.
None was injured at the refinery, where firefighting crew and hazard response units were deployed rapidly.
From Kuwait City, Al Jazeera correspondent Malik Traina described a country on edge. “It’s one of the biggest refineries in the Middle East and it is also critical for local consumption,” he said.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) denied any role in the desalination plant hit, instead accusing Israel of orchestrating it. “Israel’s ‘unconventional and illegitimate attack on Kuwait’s water desalination centres is a sign of the vileness and baseness of the Zionist occupiers,’” read an IRGC declaration via Telegram.
“Iran condemn[s] this inhuman act and announce that the American bases and military in the region and the military and security centres of the Zionist regime in the occupied Palestinian territories are our powerful targets,” the IRGC added.
