Wire reporting: (AFP, via The New Indian Express)

Yemen's Houthi-run health ministry said Saturday that airstrikes it blamed on Saudi Arabia killed 27 people and wounded dozens in a village east of the capital, Sanaa, according to reports that could not independently confirm the figures^1,2,3.

Reuters, citing the Houthi-run Saba news agency, said the ministry reported at least 27 killed and 36 wounded in Bani Hushaysh and that most of those killed were women and children¹. Middle East Eye and an AFP dispatch carried by The New Indian Express likewise attributed a 27-dead, 36-wounded tally for Al-Shariya to the ministry via Saba^2,5.

Sky News said spokesman Anees Alasbahi, speaking to the Associated Press, accused Saudi Arabia of striking al-Shariya³. UPI, citing The New York Times, gave Alasbahi's wounded figure as 30 rather than 36⁴.

Reuters said it could not independently verify the account¹. Saudi Arabia's Center for International Communication did not immediately comment on Reuters' inquiries, the wire reported¹. UPI likewise said the Saudi government had not spoken about the Saturday attacks⁴.

A Sanaa hospital director told Reuters that some people remained trapped, that medical responders had been among the dead, and that further strikes hit as rescue teams arrived¹. Middle East Eye said Saba reported rescuers still recovering victims and that warplanes had struck paramedics twice².

Outlets placed the incident in a wider flare-up after a 2022 U.N.-brokered truce largely halted earlier fighting until combat resumed in July^1,3. Reuters called the reported attack among the deadliest since that resumption¹.

Middle East Eye said the Houthis claimed six missile and drone operations against Saudi targets, including Aramco facilities, Riyadh airport and troops, and that the Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted a Houthi missile toward Riyadh province². Sky News reported Saudi civil-defence alerts Saturday for Jizan and Najran³.

Friday's disputed strike on a market in Taiz, which Houthi officials said killed at least 30 people, was reported alongside Saturday's Sanaa-area figures; UPI and Sky News said the Houthis and Yemen's Saudi-backed authorities blamed each other for that market attack^3,4. Middle East Eye said Yemeni government forces announced strikes on hundreds of Houthi sites in an offensive they call Operation Dawn of Yemen².

Who flew the aircraft over Bani Hushaysh, the precise death toll, and any Saudi description of a target were not independently established in Saturday's reporting^1,3,4.