The air strike targeted a citizen’s house in Saqain district, killing two civilians (a mother and her child) and injuring another one, a Yemeni security official added.
Another air strikes targeted a civilian’s home in Qad area of Razih border district, which led to its destruction entirely, the Yemeni official noted.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s Houthi group said on Tuesday it is unilaterally halting attacks in the Red Sea for two weeks to support peace efforts, days after Saudi Arabia suspended oil exports through a strategic Red Sea channel following attacks on crude tankers last week.
Saudi Arabia said on Thursday it was suspending oil shipments through the strait after the Houthis attacked two Saudi oil tankers, one of which sustained minimal damage, until the waterway was safe.
The head of IRGC Quds Force, major general Qasem Soleimani, has emphasized recently that the Red Sea, which used to be quite safe for the Americans in yesteryear, today is no longer considered safe for them.
Saudi crude exports through Bab al-Mandeb are estimated at around 500,000-700,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to analysts and Reuters data. Most Gulf oil exports that transit the Suez Canal and SUMED Pipeline pass through the strait.
Saudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement and reinstate the former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime.
Over the past three years, the Houthis have been running state affairs and defending Yemeni people against the Saudi aggression.
More than 12,000 people have been killed since the onset of the campaign more than two and a half years ago. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war.
