SANAA, 29 December, 2020, (TON): Yemen's Houthi militia said on Tuesday that the Saudi-led coalition launched an airstrike on Houthi military site in the capital Sanaa.

The Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported the airstrike in the morning on the area of al-Kasarat in Hamdan district in western Sanaa, saying residents across Sanaa heard a powerful explosion.

The coalition has made no comment yet.

The Houthis have recently intensified cross-border drone and missile attacks on Saudi cities. All Houthi attacks had been intercepted, according to the coalition's statements.

Bombings in Sanaa city have been rare since September 2019 when Saudi Arabia launched indirect talks with the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, which controls Sanaa and most of northern Yemen.

The Houthis took over the Yemeni capital Sanaa and most other cities in 2014 after ousting the Saudi-backed internationally-recognized government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The Western-backed coalition that Saudi Arabia leads intervened to try to restore Hadi to power.

The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting the Iran-backed Houthi rebels since March 2015.

The conflict has killed 100,000 people and led to what the United Nations describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. The UN estimates that twenty-two million Yemenis remain in need of assistance, eight million are at risk of famine, and a cholera outbreak has affected over one million people. All sides of the conflict are reported to have violated human rights and international humanitarian law.