CAIRO — Airstrikes hit homes in a village near Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, November 7, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 others, mostly women and children, a spokesman for Yemen's Houthi-run Health Ministry said. Speaking to the Associated Press, Anees Alasbahi accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out the strikes on al-Shariya, a village in the Bani Hushaysh district of Sanaa province, on the outskirts of the Houthi-controlled capital.

Source: Associated Press, Nov 7, 2026

The AP said it could not independently verify the claims, and Saudi Arabia's Information Ministry did not immediately reply to its request for comment. Houthi media reported the toll as the rescue work continued: the Houthis' Saba news agency said operations to recover victims from the rubble were ongoing and that aircraft had also targeted paramedics with two strikes — a claim Awaaz Punjab reports as a Houthi allegation, not a verified fact. An earlier AFP/Reuters count on Saturday put the dead at 22, with dozens wounded; the AP's later report raised the figure to at least 25 killed and 30 wounded.

Source: AFP/Reuters, Nov 7, 2026

Second deadly strike in two days

Saturday's strikes came a day after a deadly attack on al-Hadara market in the al-Waziyah district of Taiz province, in southwestern Yemen. Houthi officials said at least 30 people were killed there, while the Houthis and Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces blamed each other for the market attack, and neither side's claims were independently verified by the AP. Awaaz Punjab reported that strike on Friday as both sides traded blame.

Friday's market strike in Taiz, where both sides traded blame, was reported here: At Least 20 Killed in Strike on Crowded Yemen Market in Taiz

The same Saturday also brought the war back to the Saudi capital region: Saudi air defences intercepted a Houthi cruise missile aimed at Riyadh, the Saudi-led coalition said — the latest in a near-daily exchange of missiles and drones between the kingdom and the Iran-backed Houthis.

The interception over the capital region was reported earlier today here: Saudi Arabia Intercepts Houthi Cruise Missile Aimed at Riyadh

A war that came back

Yemen slipped back into open war between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government in July, after years of relative calm, opening a new front in the wider Middle East conflict. Since then Saudi Arabia has regularly bombed Houthi positions, while the group has multiplied its attacks against the kingdom, AFP/Reuters reported. The Houthis have controlled Sanaa and large parts of northern and western Yemen since 2014, while Saudi Arabia backs Yemen's internationally recognised government based in Aden.

For the lakhs of Punjabi and Indian workers who live and work across Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, every escalation of this war is watched closely at home: Houthi missiles have repeatedly targeted Saudi cities and airports in recent weeks, and Indian carriers have already suspended or extended suspensions of flights to Saudi cities during this fighting. Saturday's strikes on homes outside Sanaa, and the missile intercepted on its way to Riyadh, underline how quickly the conflict is widening on both sides of the border.

What happens next depends first on the rescue: Houthi media said recovery from the rubble was still under way on Saturday, so the toll may rise. With no comment yet from Riyadh, and missiles still flying toward the Saudi capital the same day, there was no sign on Saturday of the fighting easing — and every new strike on a village or a market makes the civilian cost of Yemen's returned war harder to ignore.