Houthis say Saudi strikes kill 33 in Yemen

According to Houthi authorities, Saudi strikes killed 33 people, many of them women and children, in Yemen's Sanaa province, in one of the deadliest attacks reported since fighting resumed in the country.

The United Nations says more than 1,600 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced since fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-aligned group broke out again in July.

The death toll from the Saudi-led coalition's strikes on Al-Shariya village, located east of Yemen's capital Sanaa, has risen to 33, with 39 people injured, Houthi health ministry spokesman Anees Alasbahi said in a post on X.

The Houthis' Saba news agency yesterday said operations to recover victims from the rubble were ongoing and that "aircraft targeted paramedics with two strikes".

According to the near-final figures, the dead include 12 men, 8 women and 13 children, while the injured include 16 men, 10 women and 13 children," Mr Alasbahi said.

The Iran-backed group's Al-Masirah TV broadcast footage, that it said was filmed in Al-Shariya, showed smoke rising from a site that had been struck, piles of debris and wounded people in hospital.

Saudi Arabia, fighting in Yemen in support of the internationally recognised government, has not commented on the report.

The Saudi-led coalition, in a statement yesterday, said it had intercepted and destroyed a Houthi missile launched towards Riyadh province.

The Houthis, meanwhile, said they had launched multiple missile and drone attacks against Saudi troops and infrastructure in both the Gulf kingdom and Yemen.

The group said six operations targeted Aramco oil facilities, Riyadh airport and Saudi military positions on both sides of the border, according to a post on X by Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree.

On Friday, an attack on a market in Taiz province killed 30 people.

The Houthis said Saudi airstrikes were to blame, while Yemen's government forces accused the Iran-backed group of firing a ballistic missile at the site.

The renewed fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis has shattered a 2022 UN-brokered truce that largely halted attacks between the Saudi-led coalition and the group, which controls Sanaa.

The Houthis have since launched missile and drone attacks on Saudi airports and oil facilities, while Riyadh has carried out airstrikes in Yemen in support of its Yemeni allies.