Yemeni army forces, backed by the Arab Coalition to Support Legitimacy, foiled a large-scale attack by Iranian-backed Houthi coup militia in al-Jawf province. Coalition fighter jets destroyed military vehicles and fortifications of militias in al-Jawf and Hajjah, while joint and southern forces foiled several attacks on al-Dhali fronts. In the West Coast, the militias shared non-compliance with the Hodeidah agreements, and their refusal to open security roads and corridors in the city.
In detail, Yemeni army forces, backed by the Arab Coalition, repelled a major attack by Houthi militias in the Khub and al-Shaaf front in al-Jawf province, killing and wounding the attackers, including a senior commander killed in the attack, according to field sources from the 6th Military Zone.
The sources pointed out that the prominent Houthi leader, Ali Mohsen al-Qahm, commander of the front of the Directorate of Khub and Shaaf, was killed with a large number of militia elements, pointing out that the Yemeni army launched a counter-attack on the militias in the region of Sibla, and destroyed several military vehicles belonging to the militias, in addition to Their human losses.
The Arab Coalition fighter jets launched a series of raids targeting militia positions and gatherings in the Jabal Qash'an area of the same district and other areas, destroying military vehicles and fortifications, leaving dead and wounded among the Houthis.
In Hajjah, coalition fighter jets bombed Houthi militia positions around the Haradh and Midi districts, and reinforcements along the road linking Hiranat al-Muhurra and the district of Abs, leaving Houthi gunmen dead and wounded, destroying military vehicles and vehicles loaded with elements, ammunition and supplies.
In Hodeidah, on the west coast of Yemen, the joint forces accused Houthi militias of blocking food convoys through the main roads linking Hodeidah port and neighboring areas of the province, although it was previously agreed that the militias would begin opening safe crossings and corridors for food convoys of international organizations.
The spokesman for the Joint Forces in the West Coast, Colonel Waddah Al-Dabeish, said in an exclusive statement to Emirates Today that the Houthi militias refuse to open safe roads and corridors to food convoys and residents of the areas, within which the control committees were deployed inside the city, and refused to remove the dirt barriers. The trenches were filled in roads and neighborhoods previously created by their elements.
He added that «militias prevent even the passage of food to the monitoring committees, especially those of the government side, and hamper the efforts of the United Nations in the implementation of the Swedish agreement in general, and seeks to blow up the situation militarily through continued fire operations, and launching attacks and attempts to infiltrate the joint forces positions As well as the development of military sites in several areas, especially southern, which pushed it with large military reinforcements, and refuses to disclose the maps of mines, which are widely deployed in several roads and areas on the west coast ».
The head of the UN Monitoring Committee in Hodeidah, Indian General Abhijit Guha, called in a press statement yesterday, all parties to abide by the terms of the recent agreement on redeployment, and open roads and corridors for humanitarian aid, and condemned the continued militias breach of agreements and non-compliance with the ceasefire In several areas in Hodeidah.
In the meantime, Houthi militias continued their military escalation, and targeted joint forces positions in the Directorate of Duraimi, south of Hodeidah, and the «Kilo 16» east of the city, using heavy and medium weapons, also bombed the area of Al-Faza district of Tahita with more than 15 assorted shells, and targeted the neighborhood, South of the city, with Katyusha rockets, artillery shells and machine guns.
In Al-Dhale'e, clashes intensified in the vicinity of Al-Fakhir area between the joint and southern forces on the one hand, and the coup militias on the other hand, and the Maris Front witnessed confrontations between the two sides as part of a major escalation of the militias on the various fronts of Al-Dhale'e.
According to field sources in al-Dhali, the militias launched large-scale attacks yesterday morning on the positions of the joint and southern forces in the fronts of al-Fakher, Maris, Shalil, Bab al-Gulq and Hajar, in an attempt to return to the areas lost previously, but failed to achieve their objectives due to the vigilance of the troops stationed Those areas, which broke and failed their attacks and suffered heavy losses in equipment and lives.
Houthi militias refuse to open safe roads and corridors to food convoys in Hodeidah.