A Saudi airstrike hit a home in Yemen’s Taiz province on Monday, killing at least four civilians, according to the Yemeni Health Ministry within the Ansar Allah-led government.
The Health Ministry said that three women and an elderly man were killed in the attack and that three other civilians were wounded. Yemeni media also reported that the al-Rawdah School, also in Taiz province, was hit by Saudi airstrikes, marking the third time that Saudi Arabia has bombed the facility.
Yemeni Health Minister Ali Shaiban held a press conference in Sanaa on Monday and condemned what he called “international silence” in the face of Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes against civilians, something Riyadh was notorious for during its war against Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, from 2015 to 2022.
The strikes on Monday came a day after Saudi airstrikes hit a market in Taiz, killing at least seven people. According to Yemen’s SABA news agency, Shaiban said that the Saudi attack on a crowded market was “definitive proof of the Saudi enemy’s terrorism and criminality in targeting the civilian population.”
Saudi airstrikes in Yemen are supported by the US, as there are reportedly up to 200 US military advisors in Saudi Arabia providing targeting and intelligence support. Saudi Arabia also uses US-made aircraft and US-made bombs in many of its strikes.
Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Saree said on Monday that Yemeni forces recorded dozens of Saudi airstrikes and missile attacks over the past day.
“Over the past 24 hours, Saudi warplanes launched 38 airstrikes and missile attacks using F-15 and Typhoon aircraft that took off from Khamis Mushait and Taif airbases, and missile attacks launched from Najran and Jizan. These attacks targeted the provinces of Taiz, Saada, and Hajjah, resulting in civilian casualties, including women and children,” Saree said.
He added that the “total number of Saudi-led coalition airstrikes and missile attacks since the escalation began has now reached 1,123.”
Saudi Arabia reignited its war in Yemen by launching airstrikes against the Sanaa International Airport on July 13 to prevent a plane from Iran from landing. Ansar Allah responded by imposing a blockade on Saudi shipping and striking Saudi oil infrastructure. At the beginning of the month, Ansar Allah launched a major ground offensive, taking the Red Sea port city of Mocha and islands in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
The blockade still applies only to Saudi shipping, but Ansar Allah has warned that it would be expanded if the US directly entered the war by launching airstrikes. A US-Ansar Allah ceasefire reached in May 2025 still remains in effect.
