The attack has been confirmed by UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency.
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The statement made no reference to passenger flights ran by national carrier Yemenia, which until Tuesday had been the sole operator still serving Sanaa.
Iran-backed rebels convened Yemen’s parliament on Saturday in defiance of the internationally recognised government, prompting condemnation from President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon had accused Saudi Arabia of threatening to cut off funding to United Nations aid programmes over the blacklist, a charge denied by Riyadh.
Saudi royal air forces had already intercepted a scud missile on Saturday, which was launched from Yemeni grounds targeting Khamis Mushait, south-west Saudi Arabia, located east of Abha.
Since March past year, Yemen has been the target of an air campaign launched by an Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia.
US -backed Saudi forces have bombed more hospitals, schools, civilian neighborhoods, weddings, a refugee camp and even an Oxfam humanitarian aid warehouse.
Worldwide concerns are rising over the upsurge in the conflict in Yemen after the UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait between the representatives of the former government and the Houthi Ansarullah movement failed to make a breakthrough and were suspended on August 6.
Snipers of Yemen’s army killed three Saudi troops inside Saudi Arabia as part of retaliatory operations against the deadly Saudi war against the Arab country.
Military sources loyal to the Hadi government said the air raids targeted only military positions held by the Huthis and their allies, supporters of ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Moreover, American and British military officials are physically in the command room with the Saudi military, and have access to a list of targets. Almost 80 percent of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance.
Coalition states have formed a 14-member investigative team which has probed claims of attacks on a residential area, hospitals, markets, a wedding and World Food Programme aid trucks. Human rights organizations have accused both the coalition and Yemeni rebels of war crimes.
In Saudi Arabia, the civil defense agency announced that five foreign residents were wounded in shelling from Yemen Saturday in the Jazan border region, without giving their nationalities.
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Around 100 Saudi soldiers and civilians have been killed inside the kingdom’s borders since last March.
