Wire reporting: (AP, via WSVN 7)

A Houthi-run health ministry said air strikes hit homes in a village north of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens, mostly women and children, according to accounts carried by Al Jazeera, the Associated Press via WSVN 7, and Middle East Eye^1,2,4.

Anees al-Asbahi, a spokesman for the Sanaa-based ministry, identified the village as al-Shariya and blamed Saudi Arabia, AP reported via WSVN 7². Houthi-run Saba news agency put the death toll at at least 27, Al Jazeera and Middle East Eye reported^1,4. Middle East Eye, citing the same ministry via Saba, said 36 people were also wounded⁴.

Al Jazeera said it could not independently verify the reports, and that Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s internationally recognised government had not commented on the reported village strikes¹. AP said via WSVN 7 that it likewise could not verify the claims and that Saudi Arabia’s Information Ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment².

The Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah, attributed the attack to the Saudi-led coalition backing government forces^1,4. Field Marshal Mahdi al-Mashat, president of the group’s Supreme Political Council, vowed a response, Al Jazeera reported¹.

Saba said rescuers were still recovering victims from rubble and that warplanes struck paramedics twice, Middle East Eye reported⁴. AP, via WSVN 7, said al-Asbahi told Houthi-run Al-Masirah television that civilians remained buried and that later strikes hit emergency workers².

Separately, Yemeni government forces said they had fought for hours in Marib province, with air and drone support, to halt Houthi advances, and that they were pushing into Houthi-held areas of al-Jawf on a third day of fighting in Operation Dawn of Yemen^1,4. Spokesman Col. Majed al-Nazili said the army carried out 875 attacks on Houthi positions on Saturday and reported about 130 Houthi commanders and fighters killed, Al Jazeera reported, adding it could not independently verify those claims^1,4.

The Houthis said they had launched six missile and drone operations against Saudi targets, including oil facilities, Riyadh airport, and positions on both sides of the border, Al Jazeera and Middle East Eye reported^1,4. Middle East Eye said the Saudi-led coalition reported intercepting and destroying a Houthi missile fired toward Riyadh province⁴.

The reports follow a Friday attack on a market in Taiz province that killed civilians, with the Houthis and government forces each blaming the other^1,2,4. Reporting from Sanaa, Al Jazeera’s Yousef Mawry said the two sides were offering competing accounts while civilian casualties mounted¹. A yearslong truce had broken down over the summer, AP reported via WSVN 7².