Missiles and drones continue to fly across the Gulf even a month after the US-Israeli strikes on Iran triggered a full-blown war, hitting all countries of the region — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — and severely impacting global energy flows.
UAE’s Dubai, which has sold itself for decades as a safe bubble in the turbulent Middle East, has also been hit by the US-Israeli conflict with Iran and continues to intercept missiles and drones.
Dubai, which houses a large community of migrants, has been keeping the residents posted about the interceptions through its official social media channels — primarily Dubai Media Office.
Dubai war news LIVE
-An Iranian attack sparked a fire on a Kuwaiti oil tanker at Dubai Port, state media reported on Tuesday. There were no injuries, according to the report, and Dubai authorities later said firefighters had extinguished the blaze that sparked concerns of oil spill.
-The Kuwaiti oil tanker struck by Iranian attack off Dubai early on Tuesday was reportedly fully laden, making the strike one of the most significant hit on a vessel in a month of war, pushing crude prices higher and heightening tension around the vital Strait of Hormuz.
-Dubai Media Office said on X that response teams successfully contained the incident involving the Kuwaiti oil tanker in Dubai waters, “with no oil leakage and no injuries reported,”
-Hours after containing the fire, Dubai Media Office said authorities were responding to an incident caused by debris from a successful interception that fell on residential houses in southern Dubai. The incident resulted in property damage and minor injuries to four Asian nationals, the authority said.
-Before the debris incident, Dubai Media Office informed that the sounds heard across parts of the city were the result of successful air defence interception operations. “Please rely on official sources for updates,” it said.
-In a unrelated attack, strikes have knocked out a desalination plant on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media reported, without saying when the attack took place. “One of the desalination plants on Qeshm Island was targeted… and is now completely out of service, as it is not possible to repair it in the short term,” the ISNA news agency reported, quoting health ministry official Mohsen Farhadi.
