Saudi airstrikes in Yemen’s southwestern Taiz province on Monday hit a girls’ school and a health center, killing at least five civilians, according to Yemeni media reports.
Yemen’s SABA news agency, citing a local source, reported that a child was among those killed and that 15 other civilians were wounded. The news agency also published photos said to show the aftermath of the attack.
Saudi Arabia was notorious for bombing civilians during the war in Yemen 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. Separate Saudi strikes in the northern al-Jawf province on Monday killed at least nine civilians, including five children.
The Health Ministry within the Ansar Allah-led Yemeni government reported more civilian casualties on Tuesday, saying that at least two were killed by Saudi strikes on oil infrastructure in Hodeidah. On Monday, the ministry said that since September 3, when the war escalated following the start of an Ansar Allah ground offensive, Saudi strikes have killed at least 107 civilians and wounded 278.
The Yemen Data Project, an independent organization, has reported a similar toll, saying in a report that at least 66 civilians were killed and 90 were wounded by Saudi strikes in the month of September. The bombing campaign is backed by the US, which is providing intelligence and targeting data and has also resumed refueling Saudi warplanes.
Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, has also killed civilians in its strikes on Saudi Arabia. At least 14 civilians were killed by weekend attacks on the King Khalid Airport in Riyadh.
