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Houthis Blame Saudi Arabia for Airstrikes Near Yemen Capital
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In Short: The Houthi-run Health Ministry says Saudi Arabia killed 33 people in airstrikes near Sanaa, Yemen's capital.
The Houthi-run Health Ministry in Yemen reported that Saudi Arabia carried out airstrikes near Sanaa, killing at least 33 people, mostly women and children, on Saturday.
Footage aired by Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV showed medical staff carrying the bodies of young children from ambulances to a local hospital.
Houthi leader Mahdi al-Mashat vowed that the group will take revenge for the latest attacks in Yemen.
The reported casualties underscore the worsening conflict in Yemen, where a years-long truce collapsed over the summer.
The Associated Press said the Saturday toll reflected the rapid worsening of Yemen’s civil war, where a yearslong truce fell apart over the summer, and it described fighting escalating between the Iran-backed Houthis and their Saudi-backed opponents.
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.
Men carry a girl injured in an airstrike on a village near Sanaa out of Sehatna Hospital for transfer to another medical facility after emergency treatment in Houthi-controlled Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Nov.
The casualties were mostly women and children, the Houthis said.
The attacks came a day after Houthi officials said 30 people were killed in strikes on a market in southern Yemen.
On Friday, an airstrike hit a market in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 people, according to Houthi officials.
What this adds
The AP could not independently verify the claim, and Saudi Arabia’s Information Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Saudi Arabia is planning an offensive against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis to reverse their seizure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, with Turkish drones and Pakistani military equipment already in use in Yemen, regional and Western officials told Reuters.
The Pentagon told Congress this week that the U.S. military’s airstrikes against Houthi militants in Yemen last year resulted in 153 civilians killed and another 243 individuals injured in the Middle Eastern nation.
Background
Houthi officials said one airstrike hit the village of al-Shariya in the Bani Hushaysh district east of Sanaa, Yemen's capital under Houthi control since 2014, as reported by UPI.
Airstrikes hit a village near Yemen's capital Sanaa, killing at least 27 people and wounding 36, according to the Houthi-run Health Ministry.
What's confirmed
- The Iranian-backed Houthis and Yemen’s Saudi-backed military each blamed the other for that strike.
- The AP could not independently verify the claim, and Saudi Arabia’s Information Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
- Footage aired by Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV showing the aftermath of Saturday’s strikes depicted medical staff carrying the limp bodies of young children from ambulances to a local hospital.
- The Associated Press said the Saturday toll reflected the rapid worsening of Yemen’s civil war, where a yearslong truce fell apart over the summer, and it described fighting escalating between the Iran-backed Houthis and their Saudi-backed opponents.
- Houthi officials said one airstrike hit the village of al-Shariya in the Bani Hushaysh district east of Sanaa, Yemen's capital that has been under Houthi control since 2014.
- Men carry a girl injured in an airstrike on a village near Sanaa out of Sehatna Hospital for transfer to another medical facility after emergency treatment in Houthi-controlled Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Nov.
- CAIRO -- Airstrikes in a town near the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday killed 22 people and wounded 30 others, mostly women and children, a spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi-run Health Ministry said.
- The attacks came a day after Houthi officials said 30 people were killed in strikes on a market in southern Yemen.
- On Friday, an airstrike hit a market in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 people, according to Houthi officials.
- CAIRO (AP) — Airstrikes hit homes in a village near Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, killing at least 27 people and wounding 36 others, mostly women and children, a spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi-run Health Ministry said.
- Houthi rebels say airstrikes have hit homes in a village near Yemen's capital, Sanaa, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens.
- At least 33 people were killed and 39 wounded in what the Houthi-run Saba news agency described as Saudi airstrikes on a village near Yemen's capital Sanaa on Saturday, in one of the deadliest reported attacks since fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-aligned group resumed in July.
What's still developing
- The Yemeni government armed forces said in a post on X that they targeted Houthi gatherings in Dahle province and launched 13 airstrikes targeting Houthi positions and a missile launch base in Bayda province.
- Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a series of missile attacks targeting cities across Saudi Arabia as the military said projectiles are being intercepted.
- S audi Arabia is planning an offensive against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis to reverse their seizure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, with Turkish drones and Pakistani military equipment already in use in Yemen, regional and Western officials told Reuters.
- 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 Pentagon told Congress this week that the U.S. military’s airstrikes against Houthi militants in Yemen last year resulted in 153 civilians killed and another 243 individuals injured in the Middle Eastern nation.
- The Ministry of Transport in Aden said the Houthis fired two ballistic missiles and several drones at the airport, with the missiles hitting close to the tarmac just minutes before a Yemenia Airways flight was due to land.
- The fighting, a spillover from the wider US-Iran conflict, has revived a complex 12-year war in Yemen that has caused one of the worst humanitarian crises globally and fragmented the Arab world's most impoverished country.
- 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.