Missile strike on Yemen market kills many as humanitarian crisis deepens

Several people were killed in a missile strike on a market in Yemen's Taiz province on Friday. Both sides in the country's prolonged war have blamed each other for the attack.

It is a month since Yemen's internationally recognised government launched a military operation called "Dawn of Yemen", after Iran-backed Houthi rebels seized large areas along the Red Sea coast. As the fighting continues, the humanitarian crisis is deepening, with hundreds of thousands of people already displaced.

Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council has said the effort to destroy the Houthis' military capability and restore sovereignty is "irreversible"; observers fear the situation could worsen before any resolution emerges. The operation, launched on 5 October under Rashad al-Alimi, aims to retake areas including the capital Sanaa, under Houthi control since 2014.