Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Saree said on Tuesday that Yemeni forces recorded 35 Saudi airstrikes over the previous 24-hour period, which comes as ground fighting between Ansar Allah and Saudi-backed forces continues mainly in the southwestern Taiz province.
“Over the past 24 hours, Saudi warplanes launched 35 airstrikes using F-15 and Typhoon aircraft, taking off from Khamis Mushait and Taif airbases,” Saree wrote on Telegram.
Saree alleged that the “strikes targeted civilian infrastructure, including communications networks and schools, in the governorates of Taiz, Al-Jawf, Amran, Saada, and Hodeidah.” He added that the latest attacks bring the “total number of Saudi-led airstrikes and missile attacks since the escalation began to 1,158.”
Separately, Yemen’s National Human Rights Authority, a rights monitoring group that operates in the part of Yemen governed by Ansar Allah, which is where most Yemenis live, accused “Saudi enemy forces” of killing a girl in a mortar attack in the Maqbanah District of Taiz.
A day earlier, Yemeni media reported that a Saudi strike on a civilian home in Taiz killed four people, including an elderly man and three women. Saudi Arabia was notorious for bombing civilian areas during its war against Ansar Allah from 2015 to 2022, and the current conflict, which was reignited by Saudi airstrikes on the Sanaa International Airport in July, has followed a similar pattern. The US is supporting the Saudi airstrikes by providing targeting and intelligence support.
The US and other countries that back Saudi Arabia have so far refrained from directly entering the war by launching airstrikes in Yemen. Ansar Allah has made clear that it would respond to such escalations by ramping up its Red Sea blockade, which currently applies only to Saudi shipping.
