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Middle East

Houthi spokesman alleges 38 Saudi air and missile attacks in Yemen

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree alleged on September 28 that Saudi forces had carried out 38 air and missile attacks in the preceding 24 hours against Taiz, Saada and Hajjah. The account was reproduced by the Arabic outlet Al Masaa Press; the total has not been independently confirmed. Al Masaa Press

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The attacks described

Saree attributed the aerial attacks to F-15 and Typhoon aircraft. He also alleged that civilians, including women and children, had been killed or wounded, without providing a casualty figure in the statement.

What the numbers describe

The reported wording combines air raids and missile attacks. It should therefore not be read as a verified count of 38 aircraft sorties or 38 separate airstrikes. Nor does the account provide an incident by incident list showing how the figure was calculated. Al Masaa Press

Saree put the cumulative number of attacks at 1,123 since what he described as the beginning of the escalation. The statement did not specify a start date or a counting method, limiting the usefulness of that total for comparison with other reports.

No confirmation from Riyadh

No Saudi confirmation of the 38 attack figure was identified in the material reviewed. That absence does not validate or disprove the claim. It leaves the allegations dependent on a spokesman for one of the parties to the conflict.

Any subsequent casualty count would need its own sourcing and time window. The announcement establishes what the Houthis are alleging; it does not independently establish the number of attacks, the weapons used or responsibility for particular civilian deaths.

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