At least four people were killed by a US airstrike on a residential building in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Sunday night, Yemen’s SABA news agency reported, citing local authorities.
The report said that two women were among the four killed, and another 23 were injured, including 11 women and children. The attack also damaged multiple homes in the area.
Yemen’s Health Ministry said earlier in the day that overnight US airstrikes on the northern Saada province killed at least two civilians and wounded four others. The strikes hit a solar panel shop and a nearby home.
Residential buildings have been a frequent target of US airstrikes since President Trump launched the bombing campaign on March 15. Administration officials celebrated the bombing of a residential building in a Signal chat that was published by The Atlantic.
Mike Waltz, President Trump’s national security advisor, claimed in the chat that the Houthis’ “top missile guy” entered a building where his “girlfriend” lived and said the US airstrike “flattened” the building. The strategy resulted in a heavy civilian toll, with at least 25 civilians killed in just the first week of the US bombing campaign, according to the Yemen Data Project.
The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, are not backing down in the face of the daily US airstrikes despite claims from the White House that the bombing campaign has been “incredibly successful.” Early Sunday morning, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree announced more attacks on US warships in the region.
“Over the last few hours, the missile and UAV forces, with the participation of the naval forces, clashed with a number of these warships in the northern Red Sea, including the American aircraft carrier ‘Truman’ with a number of cruise missiles and drones,” Saree said.
So far, there’s been no indication that any US warships have been hit by Houthi missiles or drones, but the Pentagon has shared virtually no details about the war. According to The New York Times, Pentagon officials are telling Congress that the bombing campaign has only had “limited success” while coming at a high cost, with the total spent on the operations since March 15 expected to exceed $1 billion soon.
The Houthis are notoriously resilient, having survived a brutal US-backed Saudi-UAE war from 2015 to 2022 and a US bombing campaign from January 2024 to January 2025. The Yemeni group has maintained it would only back down if there was an end to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and a lifting of the total Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory.
