Saudi fighter jets carried out 47 airstrikes and missile attacks over the past 24 hours on Houthi-held areas across Yemen, said Houthi officials late Thursday.
The Saudi Air Force launched strikes targeting civilian infrastructure, including telecommunications networks, schools, and other facilities in the governorates of Taiz, Sa'ada and Al-Jawf, said Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea in a statement.
These attacks were carried out by F-15 and Typhoon fighter jets, which took off from air bases in Khamis Mushait and Taif, as well as missile strikes launched from Jazan, he said.
This brings the total number of Saudi airstrikes and missile attacks to 1,256 since the escalation began, said the spokesman.
There was no immediate comment from Saudi Arabia on the claims.
The strikes came hours after the Saudi-led coalition said in a statement posted on social media platform X that it had intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles and four drones launched by the Houthis toward Khamis Mushait and Jazan in southwestern Saudi Arabia.
Earlier on Thursday, Yemeni government forces said that 30 Houthi fighters were killed and 50 others wounded in fierce battles in Taiz.
Yemen's conflict began in late 2014 when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and much of northern Yemen, prompting a Saudi-led coalition to intervene in 2015 in support of the internationally recognized Yemeni government. The rapid Houthi advance marked the sharpest escalation since an UN-brokered truce in 2022 largely halted major hostilities.