At least seven people were killed in a Saudi airstrike on a residential area in Yemen's southwestern Taiz province in the early hours of Thursday (November 5), as the Houthi-run Ministry of Public Health and Population said on Thursday morning that 12 people had been killed and 15 others injured, mostly women and children, in a series of Saudi airstrikes across Yemen over the past 12 hours. The al-Masirah television channel, citing local sources, reported that the Taiz raid targeted a family house in the al-Barh area of the Maqbanah district; two children were among the dead and six family members were injured. Two Saudi airstrikes struck the homes of two families in Taiz, burying women and children under the rubble, the ministry account said, and residents carried out rescue efforts, searching the debris for survivors and rushing the wounded to hospitals despite the risk of further strikes. Survivors and eyewitnesses quoted in the reporting stressed that the victims were civilians inside their homes.

Source: Press TV, November 5, 2026 (carrying al-Masirah and the Sana'a Health Ministry)

Thursday's strikes continue an escalating air campaign over Taiz: on Tuesday, airstrikes hit a Taiz factory and missiles hit a market in Lahj, killing at least six people. Read the earlier story: Tuesday's Lahj market and Taiz factory strikes

Saada shelling, Mawiyah homes, health centres and telecom towers also reported hit

Elsewhere in the northwest, a civilian was killed when Saudi forces shelled the Shada'a district of Saada province, Press TV reported. In al-Mu'ayteeb village in Taiz's Mawiyah district, another Saudi airstrike targeted residential homes, injuring a man and a woman, damaging houses and setting passenger cars on fire. Saudi warplanes also targeted two health centres in the al-Silw and Hayfan districts, two mosques and a public road in the al-Zurbi and Dhi Samir areas, according to the same reporting, and fighter jets struck the telecommunications network in the Maran area of Saada's Haydan district, destroying two communication towers, a power generator and maintenance facilities and disrupting residents' access to communications. Ansarallah-affiliated media put the wider 24-hour toll at around 20 people killed across the governorates of al-Jawf, al-Bayda, Saada and Taiz, and the Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the coalition had carried out 104 attacks across areas controlled by the group, including the capital, Sana'a. The Saudi-backed government, for its part, reported that Houthi (Ansarallah) shelling in Taiz killed a woman and wounded five people, the Saba news agency said. The Saudi-led coalition had not publicly confirmed any of Thursday's figures in the reports reviewed.

Source: Press TV, November 5, 2026; Drop Site digest, November 5, 2026

The strikes come as the Houthis press demands on Riyadh — including $51 billion in compensation and recognition — in exchange for halting attacks on Saudi Arabia. Read more: Houthis demand $51 billion and recognition from Saudi Arabia

An escalating air war with no verified ledger

Yemen's war re-erupted in August after years of relative calm, and the air campaign has widened week by week: the UN has verified 270 civilian casualties since August, including 68 killed, half of them children, according to UN reporting carried by Al Jazeera, while each side's daily tolls rest on its own officials and affiliated media. The Sana'a government declared a maritime blockade against Saudi Arabia on July 20, Yemeni forces have reported operations against Saudi-linked ships in the Red Sea and retaliatory strikes inside Saudi territory, and the Houthis' price for stopping attacks on the kingdom — recognition and $51 billion in compensation — shows how far apart the two sides remain. What happens next depends on whether Thursday's toll brings any international pressure for restraint: for now the pattern is escalation on both sides, with Taiz — besieged and fought over for a decade — again at the centre of the killing, and no independent body able to verify the numbers either capital announces.

Source: Press TV; Drop Site; Al Jazeera (UN figures), November 5, 2026