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The war in Yemen intensifies with mounting clashes and reciprocal attacks between Saudi forces and the Houthis.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have said Saudi Arabia carried out 26 attacks against areas under the group’s control in the past 24 hours, as the two sides continue trading fire amid an escalating war in Yemen, according to the AFP news agency.

On Friday, the group claimed Saudi attacks on Houthi-held territory had reached 300 over the past week alone, hitting positions across the areas it controls, AFP reported.

Yemen’s government, backed by Saudi Arabia, said on Friday its forces had killed 30 Houthi rebels and wounded more than 60 in clashes in the al-Waziiyah district of Taiz province, one of several fronts where combat has picked up this week.

The exchange has come on the heels of a widening escalation of fighting in Yemen between the government’s military and the Houthi fighters.

Tens of thousands marched through Sanaa on Friday in a show of support for the Iran-backed Houthis and against Saudi Arabia, as the rebels press gains that have brought large stretches of Yemen’s Red Sea coast, including the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait, under their control.

Earlier this week, the intensifying attacks between the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels killed at least five people, including three children, according to reports from both sides.

Saudi Arabia said one person was killed in the Taif governorate after a Houthi drone was intercepted, while Houthi-linked media reported deaths from Saudi attacks in Taiz and the town of Abs.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) condemned the Houthis’ continuing attacks on Saudi Arabia, saying they had caused civilian casualties, including women and children, and damaged energy infrastructure.

In a statement released on Friday, UNSC members said: “The military escalation being carried out by the Houthis in Yemen, their continued attacks on Saudi Arabia, and the attacks and threats to international shipping in the Red Sea, along with the Houthis’ advance near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, are all factors that threaten to widen the conflict, endanger maritime security and international trade, and undermine regional and international efforts to achieve peace in Yemen.”

Members added they were “deeply concerned by reports that at least 125,000 people had been displaced across Yemen since the start of September” and demanded “an immediate halt” to the group’s attacks, voiced solidarity with Saudi Arabia and affirmed the kingdom’s right to self-defence under international law.

The escalation has drawn in Washington, though reluctantly.

United States officials met Houthi representatives at the US embassy in the Omani capital, Muscat, over the weekend after the group’s rapid territorial gains raised concern over shipping through Bab al-Mandeb, a vital corridor for global trade.

The Houthis reportedly assured Washington that vessels not linked to Saudi Arabia would not be targeted.

Despite appeals from Riyadh for US President Donald Trump to strike the Houthis directly, Washington has so far held back, wary of opening a new front while still fighting a costly war with Iran.

Meanwhile, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday the bloc’s Red Sea naval mission, Operation Aspides, had raised its alert level as the situation in the region worsened, the Reuters news agency reported.

“Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia are unacceptable and sabotage the global economy,” Kallas said in a post on X.

She added that she had spoken with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud about diplomatic efforts to end the fighting in Yemen and restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.