Key facts
- The Houthi-run Health Ministry said the dead included 21 children and 10 women.
- Forty people were wounded in the strikes, including eight children and nine women, the ministry spokesman said.
- Rescue teams were still searching for missing people, according to the Houthi-run Health Ministry.
- The report did not name which party carried out the strikes near Sanaa.
Air strikes on the village of Al-Shariya, east of Sanaa, killed at least 44 people and wounded 40 others, health authorities tied to the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said, in a report published on November 9, 2026. The toll was described as having risen to 44, most of them women and children.
Anees al-Asbahi, spokesman for the Houthi-run Health Ministry, said the dead included 21 children and 10 women. He said the wounded included eight children and nine women. Rescue teams were still searching for missing people, the ministry said.
The report did not name the party that carried out the strikes. It described the attack as one of the deadliest in the latest bout of violence in the conflict.
The same report carried a separate item: Iran's foreign ministry on Monday dismissed comments by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Iranian demands for ending the war have been "ridiculous." That item is not covered in this record.