At least 22 civilians have lost their lives and another 30 have been injured in a bombing attributed to Saudi aviation over the district of Bani Hashish, in the Sana'a region, Yemen's capital, according to the report of the Houthi authorities, who have controlled this territory since 2014.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed this toll of victims after the attack on several civilian homes, in which most of the deaths would be women and children, according to the official news agency of the Houthis, Saba. Among the injured is a cameraman from the Al Masirá TV network, and six houses are counted as completely destroyed.
The Yemeni government has condemned the "horrific massacre" in which the houses were completely razed along with their occupants inside and has denounced the "continuous attacks on civilians, ambulance service workers and rescue teams" as "a deliberate violation of international humanitarian law".
Mahdi Mohamed al Mashat, the president of the Supreme Political Council established by the Houthis in Yemen, has assured that there will be reprisals for what happened. "We promise that all the martyrs of our people will obtain revenge against the killer of children and women (...). We will punish them for their crimes, for attacks on markets and homes equal to those of the Zionists," he said.
Later, the Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Sari, mentioned Friday's attack on the Al Hadara market, in Taiz, which also left "dozens of dead civilians" and warned of a response to these "brutal and appalling crimes" of the "Saudi aggression".
In response, the Houthis carried out "six qualitative military operations" using ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones. One of these attacks had as its target the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, as well as oil storage tanks of the state-owned company Aramco and a distillation tower also belonging to Aramco.
In the capital of the "Saudi enemy," Riyadh, "the operation has successfully achieved its objective," in the same way as in Jurais, where another tower owned by Aramco has been hit. The third projectile would likewise have hit its target, the Dawami Pumping Station Number 8, while the fourth would have struck an area where Saudi troops were housed in Najran, in an "outright impact" that would have caused "a large number of deaths and injuries".
The fifth attack had as its target military buildings in eastern Al Yauf, where "dozens of military personnel" would have died or been injured, and the sixth would have hit facilities with the presence of Saudi troops in the districts of Raghwan and Madghal, in the province of Marib.