This newsroom attributed the July 24 strike on Hodeidah port to the Saudi-led coalition. That attribution has not held up, and this is the state of the record.
On July 25 the coalition's spokesman, Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki, denied it directly: 'Hodeidah port had not been targeted,' he said, and all Yemeni ports - Hodeidah, Ras Issa and Salif - 'remained open to maritime navigation' [1].
Houthi-run Al Masirah television described the strikes as hitting telecommunications authority facilities, along with Kamaran Island, where one woman was wounded. Witnesses reported explosions at the port [2]. Al Jazeera's account carries both the witness reports and the coalition's denial in the same paragraph, which fairly reflects where the evidence sits.
The Critical Threats Project, which tracks this war daily and attributes strikes when it can, logs the event as 'unspecified airstrikes reported on Houthi-controlled Hudaydah port' [3]. An unspecified actor - from the organisation with the least reason to be diplomatic about it.
What is not disputed: the coalition conducted strikes in Hodeidah governorate, and al-Maliki said it would 'take all necessary operational actions and measures' [2]. The distinction being drawn is between the governorate and the port. It may be a real distinction or a convenient one; from the outside, two days on, it cannot be resolved.
The reason to keep asking is what those three ports are for. Hodeidah, Ras Issa and Salif are the entry points for Yemen's food aid. A strike on the infrastructure around them changes what insurers charge, what charterers accept and what agencies can move - whether or not the quay itself was hit.
