SANAA — Health authorities aligned with Yemen’s Houthi movement said overnight that the death toll from air strikes on the village of Al-Shariya, east of the capital, had risen to 44, most of them women and children¹.

Anees al-Asbahi, a spokesman for the Houthi-run Health Ministry, said the dead included 21 children and 10 women and that 40 others were wounded, including children and women, with rescue teams still searching the area¹. Earlier Houthi accounts on Saturday had put the toll at about 25 to 27^3,4,5,6.

The Houthis blamed Saudi Arabia for the strikes^1,3,6. Reports said Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s internationally recognized government had not commented on the Al-Shariya attack, and news organizations said they could not independently verify the casualty figures^2,3,5.

The reported strikes came as fighting between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces has resumed after a long pause^2,3. On Saturday, government forces said they had halted Houthi assaults in Marib and were pushing in al-Jawf; Al Jazeera said it could not verify those battlefield claims³.

Separately, Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry said an attack Monday in the Medina region caused a limited pipeline fire that was extinguished with no casualties; the Houthis did not immediately claim that incident¹. What happened at Al-Shariya, who carried out the strikes, and the final death toll remain unconfirmed outside Houthi-run institutions^1,3,5.