SANAA, November 08, 2026 (DAILYNWZ) — At least 33 people were killed and 39 wounded in reported Saudi airstrikes on a village east of Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Saturday, according to Houthi authorities, in one of the deadliest attacks reported since fighting between the two sides resumed in July.
The reported strikes hit residential homes in Bani Hushaysh, a Houthi stronghold, with women and children accounting for most of the fatalities, the Houthi-run health ministry said.
The account could not be independently verified. Saudi Arabia’s Center for International Communication said it was investigating the report.
The attack highlights the growing human cost of the renewed confrontation, which has undermined years of relative calm following a United Nations-brokered truce in 2022. The agreement largely halted attacks between the Saudi-led coalition and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, which controls Sanaa.
Since hostilities resumed, the Houthis have launched missile and drone attacks against Saudi airports and oil facilities, while Riyadh has conducted airstrikes in Yemen in support of its local allies.
Rescue operations in Bani Hushaysh were complicated by continued bombardment, with casualties reported among emergency responders, according to Abdul-Aziz al-Dailami, director of Sehatuna Hospital in Sanaa.
“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,” al-Dailami said.
He said the hospital had received several critically wounded people suffering from injuries to the head, chest and legs, as well as fractures. Some victims and first responders were still believed to be trapped beneath the rubble.
The renewed fighting is part of a wider regional confrontation linked to the US-Iran conflict and has reignited a complex war that has devastated Yemen over the past 12 years.
The conflict has fragmented the Arab world’s poorest country and fuelled one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, leaving millions of people in need of assistance.
The latest escalation has also triggered further displacement. More than 200,000 people have been forced from their homes since fighting resumed, according to the International Organization for Migration, which reported the figure in October.
The latest reported death toll underscores the risks of further escalation in a conflict whose humanitarian consequences continue to deepen, despite previous efforts to secure a lasting truce.