After midnight, the coalition announced the start of air strikes in Sanaa, amid reports that reinforcements had been sent to the fighting fronts in Marib to confront the Houthis.

The Saudi Press Agency quoted the coalition as saying that air strikes had begun on "legitimate" military targets in Sanaa.

This comes after the Saudi-led coalition said on Tuesday that it had destroyed a "high-value" ballistic missile launch site in overnight air strikes on Sanaa.

The coalition stated that it took measures to spare civilians any harm, and that the "secret sites" it targeted used hospitals, organizations and civilians as human shields.

The Houthi group's Al Masirah TV said the three air strikes launched by the Saudi-led coalition hit a residential neighborhood in the capital.

And earlier on Tuesday evening, media reports said that the coalition had sent military reinforcements to the central province of Ma'rib, to support government forces in the face of the Houthis.

In a related context, the Houthis' Saba news agency quoted a security source in the group that the coalition launched 16 air raids on Tuesday on the districts of Al-Juba and Sirwah in Ma'rib governorate.

human side

On the other hand, the United Nations estimated on Tuesday that the war in Yemen by the end of 2021 will kill 377,000 people since the conflict began nearly 7 years ago, benefiting the country’s economy losing 126 billion dollars.

A report issued by the United Nations Development Program stated that direct deaths resulting from hostilities account for 40% of the outcome, and that a Yemeni child under the age of five dies every 9 minutes due to the conflict.

The report warned that if the conflict continued until 2030, it would have claimed 1.3 million lives.

The report added that "the conflict has destroyed infrastructure, collapsed the economy and put millions of people on the brink of starvation, amid an international inability to stop the war machine despite ongoing diplomatic efforts."