Houthi-run health ministry says airstrikes it blames on Saudi Arabia kill 27 near Yemen capital
The strikes hit homes in Bani Hushaysh and left many women and children among the dead, the Houthi-run health ministry said.
- On Saturday, the Houthi-run health ministry reported that 27 people were killed and 36 wounded in alleged Saudi airstrikes on homes in Bani Hushaysh, a Houthi stronghold east of Sanaa.
- Renewed fighting between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis has shattered a 2022 UN-brokered truce that largely halted attacks; combat resumed in July after years of relative calm.
- Sehatuna Hospital director Abdul-Aziz al-Dailami reported receiving wounded with critical injuries to the head, chest, and legs, while many victims remained trapped under rubble including first responders.
- More than 200,000 people have been displaced since fighting resumed, the International Organization for Migration reported in October, compounding a 12-year war that has fragmented Yemen into humanitarian crisis.
- Saudi Arabia's Center for International Communication did not immediately comment, saying it would investigate Reuters' inquiries as fighting continues amid the wider US-Iran conflict fueling regional tensions.
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Houthi-run health ministry says airstrikes it blames on Saudi Arabia kill 27 near Yemen capital
At least 27 people were killed and 36 wounded in what the Houthi-run Saba news agency said were 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.
The death toll in an attack this Saturday east of Sana'a rose to at least 27 civilians, mostly women and children, and 36 were injured, reported the de facto government of the Houthi rebels, who attributed this action to Saudi Arabia, which is leading a military coalition against the insurgents. The entrance Up 27 civilians killed in an air attack east of the capital of Yemen, according to Houthis was first published in the Digital Process.
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