The Marib provincial government’s media office stated that six ballistic missiles and four drones targeted residential neighborhoods in the city on Saturday evening, injuring four people while damaging homes, vehicles and other civilian property. One missile struck a bakery in the Al-Sharika neighborhood north of Marib city, wounding one person, according to the office. Additional strikes hit several densely populated areas, the media office reported, as part of a pattern of operations against the province. Local authorities documented the events in statements released Sunday.
National Resistance Forces aligned with Yemen’s internationally recognized government and led by Presidential Leadership Council member Tariq Saleh reported that a Houthi missile hit the southwestern port city of Mocha. The forces provided no immediate details on casualties or the scale of damage from the strike in their announcement. Mocha has experienced repeated Houthi attacks in recent days, according to the same pro-government accounts. The incidents coincided with broader operations in the Red Sea coastal area.
The Marib media office urged the international community to condemn strikes on displacement camps, residential zones and civilian facilities. It called for the events to be formally recorded as alleged violations of international humanitarian law, the office said in its statement. No immediate comment on the reported attacks in either location had come from the Houthis by Sunday.
Authorities indicated that fighting has intensified in several provinces, with recent clashes reported in Marib, Al-Jawf, Al-Dhalea and Taiz. The upsurge follows a relative lull that had held in many regions since April 2022, according to local updates. Yemen’s recognized government continues to confront the Houthis, who control Sanaa and other territories.
The conflict originated in 2014 when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and expanded their hold over large parts of the country, United Nations summaries of the war show. A Saudi-led coalition intervened the following year in support of the recognized government, leading to nearly eight years of intensified combat before the truce. The renewed violence now risks further instability across the Arabian Peninsula state.
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs data places the number of people in need of assistance at 22.3 million in 2026, within a national population of 35.3 million. The agency reported that 18.3 million face acute food insecurity, with more than 2.2 million children under five acutely malnourished and an additional 1.3 million pregnant and breastfeeding women at risk. UN refugee figures show more than 4.5 million Yemenis remain internally displaced from the fighting.
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