Sanaa: At least 33 people were killed and 39 wounded in alleged Saudi airstrikes on a village near Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, according to the Houthi Saba news agency. The attack is among the deadliest reported since fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-aligned Houthi group resumed in July.
The renewed clashes have shattered a 2022 UN-brokered truce that had largely halted attacks between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis, who control Sanaa. Since then, the Houthis have launched missile and drone attacks on Saudi airports and oil facilities, while Riyadh has conducted airstrikes in Yemen in support of its Yemeni allies.
In the latest escalation, the Houthis claimed responsibility for six military operations targeting Saudi oil infrastructure, an airport and troop positions. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the operations involved ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones and were carried out in retaliation for what the group described as deadly Saudi strikes on civilians in Taiz and Bani Hashish.
The ministry said the latest strikes hit homes in Bani Hushaysh, a Houthi stronghold east of Sanaa, with most of those killed being women and children.
Abdul-Aziz al-Dailami, director of Sehatuna Hospital in Sanaa, said several victims, including first responders, remained trapped under the rubble.
“The strikes keep coming. Just as rescuers arrive, another strike hits. We have even lost some of our own medical responders, who have been martyred,” he told Reuters.
He added that the hospital had received several critically wounded people with injuries to their heads, chests and legs, as well as fractures.
The fighting, a spillover from the wider US-Iran conflict, has revived Yemen’s 12-year war, which has triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and fragmented the Arab world’s poorest country.
According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 200,000 people have been displaced since the latest round of fighting began.
