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Airstrikes Kill 27 Near Yemen's Capital, Houthi Health Ministry Reports

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In Short: Airstrikes hit a village near Yemen's capital Sanaa, killing at least 27 people and wounding 36, according to the Houthi-run Health Ministry.

Airstrikes hit a village near Yemen's capital Sanaa on Saturday, killing at least 27 people and wounding 36 others, mostly women and children, according to a spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi-run Health Ministry.

The war in Yemen has escalated, raising fears of renewed civil conflict and humanitarian disaster. The conflict began in 2014 when the Houthis seized control of Sanaa, driving out the internationally recognized government.

The Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes in Houthi-held territory, targeting the rebels’ military infrastructure. The coalition claims these strikes are aimed at dismantling Houthi military capacity and restoring sovereignty.

Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesperson, claimed in a statement later Saturday that the group had carried out attacks against Saudi Arabia in response to the strikes on the village as well as another deadly attack Friday on a market in southwestern Yemen.

What this adds

Background

What's confirmed

• More than 100,000 Yemeni troops could be mobilized, depending on its scale.

What's still developing

• The war in Yemen is escalating, raising fears of hunger and disease The renewed fighting has raised fears that Yemen will be dragged back into the horrors of a civil war that has lasted for more than a decade and created one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.
• The AP could not independently verify the Houthis’ claims, and Saudi Arabia’s Information Ministry did not immediately reply to AP requests for comment.
• Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council has said the government will continue working to dismantle Houthi military capacity and restore sovereignty, Al-Jazeera reported.
• The Houthis said on Thursday they had fired dozens of missiles and drones at Saudi targets, including a claimed strike on a “sensitive target” in Riyadh and on Saudi Aramco facilities in Yanbu.
• New Delhi, Oct 14: A missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi movement struck a building belonging to Saudi Arabia’s state oil company Aramco in the eastern city of Dhahran overnight, escalating the confrontation between the Iran-backed group and the Saudi-led coalition, the BBC reported.
• The operation – the most significant military mission signed off by Andy Burnham as prime minister – will involve RAF pilots attempting to shoot down Houthi missiles and drones, which attacked Saudi airports and oil facilities.
• "We think the escalation by the Houthis at this later stage of the conflict is encouraged by Iran," Rayed Krimly, deputy minister for public diplomacy at the foreign ministry, told journalists on Friday, in a rare public statement.
• Krimly said that the Houthis’ attacks were a breach of a March 2023 rapprochement that was brokered by China under which Saudi Arabia and Iran resumed diplomatic relations.
• Meanwhile, Yemen’s Houthi-controlled armed forces said Sunday that Saudi Arabia had conducted 106 air and missile strikes over the previous 24 hours against Sanaa and other parts of the country.
• Dammam is the largest city in Saudi Arabia's oil-rich Eastern Province Yemen's Houthi movement has said it carried out an attack on an airport in eastern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday evening, which Saudi authorities said killed two people and injured eight others.

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