Yemen strike kills 15 in Al-Hazm as Houthis target Aden airport

At least 15 people are dead in Al-Hazm, a city in Yemen's northwestern Al-Jawf Governorate, after a Saudi Arabia-led coalition attack on Wednesday, according to the Houthi-affiliated Al-Masirah television network. The outlet says another 14 were wounded. Al-Masirah claims the strikes hit a marketplace and a gas station in the city.

The coalition backs Yemen's internationally recognized government, and the Houthis say it carried out the attack, per the outlet. Details of the strike could not be independently verified.

The bloodshed ran both directions the same day. Earlier Wednesday, the Houthis targeted Aden International Airport, saying a Saudi Arabia-linked military cargo plane had been spotted there. Iran's Tasnim News Agency later reported fresh explosions near the airport.

The Houthis had already called for the airport to be evacuated, warning over what they described as a Saudi military cargo plane ferrying weapons to kill Yemenis. Aden's airport and Saudi-led coalition military bases have been recurring Houthi targets for weeks now.

Al-Hazm sits in Al-Jawf, a governorate in Yemen's northwest that has seen repeated fighting. The casualty figures come straight from Houthi-run media, which is a party to the conflict, so treat the numbers as contested until other sources confirm them.

What happens next is the familiar, grim pattern: both sides trading strikes on airports, bases and now a city marketplace. There's no sign yet of a pause.