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The strikes,
which started in the early hours of the morning, destroyed five
houses and damaged several other buildings, the Houthi
rebel-controlled agency said.
The Old City has been inhabited for nearly 3,000 years and has a
high density of unique ochre and white, mud-brick, tower houses,
labyrinthine souqs, mosques and hammams or bathhouses.
For more than 11 weeks, an Arab military grouping led by Saudi
Arabia has been bombing the Houthis, now the dominant group in
Yemen, in a bid to restore the exiled president to power and
support local fighters in battlefields nationwide.
U.N.-sponsored talks are due to be held in Geneva on Sunday to
try to find a solution to the crisis which has left 80 percent
of the population needing some form of humanitarian aid.
(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Maha El Dahan;
Editing by Louise Ireland)
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