Houthi militias prevent the UN team from completing control points in Hodeidah

The Iranian-backed Houthi coup militia imposed a siege on the head of the UN Coordination Committee, Abhijit Hoga, to prevent him from imposing a second checkpoint in the east of the city of Hodeidah, and continued bombing and targeting the positions of the joint Yemeni forces in different areas of Hodeidah, while the Yemeni army managed to liberate the Greens area in the Directorate East Taiz Hall, while joint Yemeni forces continued to secure the liberated areas of Dali.

In detail, the Iranian-backed Houthi coup militia prevented the UN team in the Redeployment Coordination Committee in Hodeidah governorate on the west coast of Yemen from moving to the second meeting point to implement the scheduled agreement to deploy liaison officers in the seam lines in the city of Saleh east of Hodeidah.

A source in the Yemeni Joint Forces said that the Houthi militias prevented the UN team from moving in front of the UN ship yesterday morning, and restricted the movement of the UN team and prevent it from moving to the second meeting point in the city of Saleh. Al-Sabah, while Houthi militias prevented the UN team from disembarking from the international ship, and move to the meeting place agreed upon ».

The source pointed out that the militias prevented the installation of a second checkpoint northeast of the city of Hodeidah, which was agreed to implement according to a previously agreed schedule, from which the Houthi militias disavowed and obstructed the movement of the UN team and besieged it in the ship based in Hodeida.

The spokesperson for the Joint Forces in the West Coast, Waddah Al-Dabeish, told Emirates Today that the new UN General and the head of the new monitoring committee, Abhijit Guha, called on the militias to allow the UN team to move and implement the agreements on the ground, in a precedent for the first of its kind to beg The International Committee of the Party to the conflict shall not impose its conditions on it.

He pointed out that the militias failed the arrival of the Chairman of the Committee for Redeployment and International Coordination, General Guha, to the second meeting point in the east of the city of Saleh in Hodeidah city, with the field liaison committee in the government team, and that he was waiting for more than four continuous hours in vain, which forced him to Returning to the ship was not allowed to move and cross to the second meeting point.

Al-Dabeish said that militia elements in the axis north of Hodeidah city of Saleh rejected the request of the head of the International Redeployment and Coordination Committee to allow them to move towards the agreed area to activate a second point to monitor the redeployment and the ceasefire. One of their leaders, especially the supervisor of the front, called Al-Omeisi.

On the ground, the Yemeni joint forces in Hodeidah failed yesterday an attack and an attempt to infiltrate Houthi elements on the outskirts of the southern suburb of Hodeidah, according to field sources, stressing that the joint forces repelled the Houthi attack and trying to advance towards their positions in the east of the city of Duraimi, after suffering heavy losses.

The militias continued their violations of the UN truce in Hodeidah, firing heavy and artillery guns at the positions of the Yemeni joint forces in the southern province of Hays. .

The Giants fought fierce clashes with militias infiltrating the Maghazi area, in the northeastern perimeter of Hays, and suffered heavy losses while the rest of their elements fled.

In addition, the reconnaissance forces in the joint forces monitored Houthi movements of its members in the vicinity of the districts of Hays and Al-Tahta, from the south, Wadi Zami, from the east, Wadi Nakhla, and from the north, Al-Udain triangle, which oversees the surgical and Jabal Ras districts. They are concentrated in the homes and farms of the inhabitants of those areas after their displacement.

In al-Tahita, a civilian was killed and another was injured when an explosive device planted by Houthi militias exploded in Al-Faza road of the Directorate, and their car exploded, which led to the death of Omar Hamoud Ghalib, and the injury of Ismail Ali bin Ali.

In Taiz, Yemeni army forces were able to liberate new positions east of the city, after violent clashes with Houthi militias, according to the official Yemeni news agency «Saba», confirming that the second battalion Brigade «22 Mika» launched an attack on militia positions, and resulted in the liberation of Taba Al-Khader neighborhood overlooking the road linking the Directorate of Hall to Damana Khadir district, as well as overlooking the areas of Zawa Abdan and Al-Zelaie, and that the clashes resulted in the death of three members of the Houthi militias and the injury of 10 others.

In the west of the city, field sources confirmed that the army forces in Muqbana bombed militia positions, southeast of the Muqbana triangle, leaving dead and wounded among the Houthis.

Meanwhile, the Amsterdam-based Human Rights Radar Organization called on Houthi militias to lift the siege it imposed on the city of Taiz about five years ago, noting in a statement on its website that the siege of civilians in Taiz contravenes all laws, legislations and customs, and is contrary to the laws of war and international human rights law. The organization said: «The people of Taiz city suffer from this suffocating siege of the city from the east (Hawban), and the north and west, and that the people of Taiz live endless suffering, as a result of the suffocating siege and the closure of the main outlets by Houthi militants». The organization called on the UN representative in Yemen to exert its role in pressuring the Houthi group to implement the agreements related to lifting the siege on the city of Taiz. It also called on the UN Security Council, the UN and the international community to exert more efforts to end the suffering of civilians in Taiz by opening the outlets and roads leading to The city from the east, north and west. In al-Dhale'e, engineering teams are continuing their efforts to dismantle and dismantle minefields and explosives planted by Houthi militias in a large number of newly liberated areas, towns and villages in the north and northwest of Qataba - north of al-Dhale'e. A field source in the Yemeni and South Yemeni forces said that engineering and specialized teams neutralized a large number of networks intended for detonation, mines and IEDs in areas of Al-Fakher, Baja, Lower Hajar villages and Al-Jub, pointing out that demining teams are working hard day and night to remove explosives, explosives and clearing areas. Residential areas, populated villages and valleys of mines, to ensure the return of displaced citizens and families to their homes, farms and villages.

In the meantime, Houthi militias blew up a bridge leading to the Qurayn al-Fahad area of ​​Markhzah, in an attempt to delay the progress of the joint Yemeni forces, which are clearing the last remaining pockets of militias in the periphery of al-Fakher from the Beit al-Sili area, after failing to blow it up.

The cautious calm prevailed in most of Al-Fakher and Al-Jeb fronts yesterday as joint forces continued to reinforce the front-line fronts towards the east of Ibb governorate.

On the other hand, the militias fired a medium-range missile towards a camp for the marginalized IDPs in the area of ​​Maris north of Al-Dhali, which led to injuries among the IDPs in the camp, located near the city of Dmit.

In Saada, coalition warplanes continued to bombard militia positions in different areas of the province yesterday, including Bani Sayah and Bani Ma'in district Razih, which led to heavy losses.

They also targeted Houthi positions in the districts of Safra, Razeh and Baqim, while their positions in different border areas were subjected to rocket and artillery shelling by the Yemeni army forces and the Arab Coalition, which led to the destruction of fortifications and military vehicles belonging to them.