One person was killed and at least nine others were injured when air strikes hit a gas station and an oil company building in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, the Houthi-run health ministry has said.
The reported strikes took place early on Tuesday 10 November, at two sites in different parts of the city. The ministry blamed Saudi Arabia, but that allegation has not been independently verified. Saudi authorities had not immediately confirmed the reported strikes.
Health officials said one person was killed and three were injured at the gas station. They said another strike on the oil company site injured at least six people. The figures are the ministry’s account and should not be treated as an independently established final toll.
Fire reported at gas station
The station, known as al-Mufazir, is in the Jadar area of Bani al-Harith, north of the capital. Local authorities said the attack set gas tanker trailers alight and that civil defence teams were working to put out the fire.
The other reported strike hit a building belonging to the Yemen Petroleum Company in southern Sanaa. The state-owned company operates under Houthi control and distributes and markets fuel.
Local accounts said nearby homes and shops were damaged. A resident described explosions shaking neighbourhoods and said several homes were partly damaged and families left while fires burned. The full extent of the damage was not immediately clear.
There was no independently established assessment of whether fuel distribution had been disrupted. The reports also did not establish why the sites were hit or who was responsible. The ministry’s accusation against Saudi Arabia remains a claim by one side in the conflict.
Wider fighting
The Houthis control Sanaa, having taken the capital and much of northern Yemen in 2014. A Saudi-led coalition intervened the following year in support of Yemen’s internationally recognised government. Fighting between the sides has intensified again in recent months.
The latest escalation followed a Houthi advance in September towards Bab el-Mandeb, the shipping passage at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. The group has stepped up attacks on Saudi airports, ports and oil facilities, while Saudi Arabia has carried out air strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
Separately, the coalition said its air defences intercepted missiles aimed towards Riyadh and southern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Saudi civil defence issued alerts and later said the danger had passed. The reports do not establish that those launches caused the strikes in Sanaa or that the strikes were a response to any particular attack.
Pressure on health services
The reported damage comes against a backdrop of a long-running humanitarian crisis. In its 2026 response plan, the United Nations estimated that more than 22 million people in Yemen would need humanitarian assistance and protection during the year.
On 4 November, the World Health Organization warned that hospitals were facing shortages of medicines, fuel, oxygen and other supplies. It launched a response plan seeking US$31 million for work over three to six months, including emergency care, support for critical hospital services and prevention of disease outbreaks.
Those warnings relate to wider conditions across Yemen and predate the reported strikes in Sanaa. They do not establish that either incident caused a shortage or interrupted a particular hospital’s services.
