{"id":11897,"date":"2026-11-07T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T14:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/25-people-killed-in-airstrike-near-yemens-capital-houthi-official-says-national-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T14:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T14:46:31","slug":"25-people-killed-in-airstrike-near-yemens-capital-houthi-official-says-national-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/25-people-killed-in-airstrike-near-yemens-capital-houthi-official-says-national-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"25 people killed in airstrike near Yemen\u2019s capital, Houthi official says &#8211; National | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpe_imgrss\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/25-people-killed-in-airstrike-near-Yemens-capital-Houthi-official-says-National-Globalnews.ca_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Airstrikes hit homes in a village near Yemen\u2019s capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 others, mostly women and children, a spokesman for Yemen\u2019s Houthi-run Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Associated Press, Anees Alasbahi accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out the strikes on al-Shariya. The AP could not independently verify the claims, and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Information Ministry did not immediately reply to an AP request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The toll reflected the rapid worsening of Yemen\u2019s civil war, where a yearslong truce fell apart over the summer. Fighting has escalated between the Iranian-backed Houthis \u2014 who control Sanaa, the north and the west of the country \u2014 and their Saudi-backed opponents based in the south and east.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, an airstrike in a market in southern Yemen killed at least 30 people, according to Houthi officials. The Houthis and Yemen\u2019s Saudi-backed military each blamed the other for that strike.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Footage from Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV of the aftermath of Saturday\u2019s strikes showed staff carrying limp bodies of multiple young children out of ambulances at a local hospital. One little girl\u2019s head had been cleaved open. Other children lay on stretchers, bloodied and bandaged as staff tended to them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\" readability=\"5.3013698630137\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/25-people-killed-in-airstrike-near-Yemens-capital-Houthi-official-says-National-Globalnews.ca_.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\" readability=\"29.599315068493\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Footage from the farming village \u2014 located in Houthi-ruled territory about 15 kilometers (10 miles) northeast of Sanaa \u2014 showed the rubble of destroyed houses and dust filling the air as people hid in nearby agricultural fields.<\/p>\n<p>Alasbahi told Al-Masirah at least 25 people were killed, up from a toll of 22 he gave earlier to the AP. He told the channel that civilians were still buried under the rubble of houses hit in the strikes, and that subsequent strikes targeted emergency workers as they tried to pull survivors out of the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>Footage showed one wounded man covered in dust and wearing a first responder\u2019s orange vest being helped out of an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>The renewal of fighting has raised fears that Yemen will be dragged back into the horrors of a civil war that has dragged on for more than a decade and created one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian disasters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\" readability=\"0.39352640545145\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on World<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The war began when the Houthis stormed out of the north in 2014 and seized the capital, driving out the internationally recognized government. Saudi Arabia assembled a coalition backing the government, waging a yearslong campaign of air bombardment that brought it international condemnation over civilian deaths.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The war has killed at least 150,000 people, according to the U.N., along with widespread deaths from hunger and disease outbreaks. The lines of control in the country changed little for years, and a truce was reached in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The relative quiet, however, collapsed over the summer when the Houthis launched new offensives in response, they said, to Saudi Arabia\u2019s continued blockade of their territory. The rebels made a lightning advance capturing much of Yemen\u2019s Red Sea coast and strategic islands in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. At the same time, they have stepped up strikes on Saudi Arabia, targeting oil and military infrastructure and shipping in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Saudi-led coalition has said it has been carrying out airstrikes in Houthi-held territory, targeting the rebels\u2019 military infrastructure. The heaviest ground fighting has centered around Taiz, a strategic, government-held southern city that the Houthis have now encircled, worsening an already dire humanitarian situation among civilians. Residents are struggling to secure drinking water and food supplies as the Houthis restrict movement into the city.<br \/>___<br \/><em>Abou AlJoud reported from Beirut.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">: World<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airstrikes hit homes in a village near Yemen\u2019s capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 others, mostly women and children, a spokesman for Yemen\u2019s Houthi-run&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}