Key facts
- Houthi-run Al Masirah television showed rescuers pulling bodies from rubble in al-Shariyah, east of Sanaa.
- Houthi-run Saba news agency said Saudi Arabia carried out the attack; the Saudi-led coalition has not commented.
- The United Nations says more than 1,600 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced since fighting resumed.
- Houthi leader Mahdi al-Mashat vowed the group will take revenge for the latest attacks in Yemen.
- An attack on a market in Taiz province on Friday is reported to have killed 30 people, with each side blaming the other.
Media linked to the Houthi movement in Yemen said on November 7, 2026 that at least 25 people, including women and children, were killed in airstrikes by Saudi Arabia on al-Shariyah, a town east of the capital, Sanaa. There has been no comment from the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's internationally recognized government.
Live video on Al Masirah, a television station run by the Houthis, showed rescuers pulling bodies out of the rubble of several buildings and injured people being carried on stretchers to hospital. Saba news agency, also run by the Houthis, said the attack was carried out by Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis have led a coalition fighting the Houthis for more than a decade in support of Yemen's internationally recognized government. The war had been dormant for several years but reignited as a result of the Iran war. A truce began to fall apart when Saudi Arabia struck Sanaa airport, which the Houthis control, to prevent an Iranian plane landing there. The Tehran-backed Houthis subsequently targeted Abha airport in Saudi Arabia, then began hitting Saudi ships using the Red Sea off Yemen as an alternative oil export route to the Strait of Hormuz. Major fighting has since resumed between the Houthis and forces fighting for the Saudi-backed government.
On Friday, an attack on a market in Taiz province, the focus of much of the recent fighting, is reported to have killed 30 people. The Houthis accused the Saudis of carrying out the strike, while government forces accused the Houthis of firing a missile at the site. The United Nations says more than 1,600 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced since fighting resumed.
The Saudis have regularly bombed Houthi positions, while the group has fired multiple missiles at targets inside Saudi Arabia, including airports and oil facilities. Hours before the strike on al-Shariyah, the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted a missile heading toward Riyadh. Houthi leader Mahdi al-Mashat vowed the group will take revenge for the latest attacks in Yemen.