Yesterday, the Yemeni army forces shot down a Houthi march plane in the Khub and Al-Sha`f district in Al-Jawf governorate, which is witnessing extensive preparations to restore the city of Al-Hazm, the capital of the governorate, while confrontations continued in the Nahham front in the countryside of the capital, with continued violations of the international armistice on the fronts of the West Coast.
In the details, the Yemeni army forces yesterday dropped a Houthi march over the sky of the Khub and Al Sha`f district in the Al-Jawf governorate, east of Sanaa, before reaching its target, according to field sources, confirming that the marched plane launched by the Houthi militias from the al-Hazm capital, al-Jawf district, was carrying a large amount of explosives .
Staff of Al-Dhafir Brigade’s war guards, Colonel Rabie Shalfat, said that the brigade’s reconnaissance teams monitored the plane and managed to shoot it down in the Al-Barqaa region in Khob and Al-Sha`f, indicating that the militias continue to target residential areas with drones and ballistic missiles, especially after receiving defeats on the frontlines.
Meanwhile, military sources in Al-Jouf confirmed that new reinforcements of the army forces, backed by tribal fighters, were located to the east of Al-Hazm district, in preparation for recovering the city where the Houthi militia wreaked havoc, and abused its residents during the last period.
For its part, coalition fighters launched a series of raids Thursday evening on Houthi military targets in the city of Al-Hazm and its east, which led to the destruction of vehicles stationed at the targeted sites, including military crews, armored vehicles and Katyusha rocket launchers.
The raids also targeted Houthi reinforcements in the vicinity of the camp of building blocks, and military mechanisms in the areas of "Al-Khusf and Lashsha" east of Al-Jawf, which resulted in the death and injury of a number of Houthis, including foreign mercenaries.
To that, coalition fighters bombed Houthi positions in the Shada district in the neighboring Saada governorate and another between the two districts, Al-Zahir and Waheidan, in the same governorate.
In Hajjah, coalition fighters managed to destroy specific military vehicles in the Mastaba district after they were targeted by a series of focused raids that led to their destruction, before they entered the front line with the Yemeni army, after they came from Hodeidah after arriving from abroad.
Houthi military vehicles were targeted while they were moving in the Al-Amshaya district directorate in Harf Sufyan district in Amran governorate, north of the capital, Sanaa.
In Sana'a, the capital, the military forces backed by the coalition managed to thwart an attempt to advance Houthi militia members towards the liberated areas of the Najd al-Ataq front in Nahham district, northeast of the capital, and incurred heavy losses.
Field sources stated that the army forces were able to deliver painful strikes on the elements of the Houthi militia, and to force the rest of them to flee and retreat to their former areas after incurring a number of dead and wounded.
The coalition fighter jets launched eight raids in support of the Yemeni army in the process of repelling the Houthi attacks, which led to the destruction of military vehicles and the killing and injury of Houthi elements in the Al-Khaniq area of the Directorate of Neham, and targeted Houthi reinforcements that were on their way to the facilitation of the front in Nahham and another towards the Magzar district in Marib.
In Marib, coalition fighters with more than 13 raids targeted Houthi positions in Mazzar and the Harib al-Qaramish Directorate, and others in the vicinity of the Sarwah District, west of Marib, which led to the destruction of Houthi vehicles, a vehicle, and wounding those on board.
In addition, field sources confirmed the death of the prominent Houthi leader, Ismail Ali Abdullah Al-Hamzi, along with a number of his members in a coalition raid targeting a site for them in Sarwah Marib, at last.
In Hodeidah, sources in the joint forces confirmed that they were able to repel a massive Houthi attack on the eastern mountainous area of Al-Tahita district, and suffered heavy losses and destroyed military vehicles and motorcycles used in the attack.
According to local sources in the mountain, the recent attacks resulted in the injury of Ahmed Hassan Al-Nahari (60 years) while he was in a popular market in the district of Al-Tahita, during the fall of a Houthi shell in the market, which led to amputation of his leg.
Meanwhile, the engineering forces of the joint forces managed to dismantle an explosive device planted by the Houthi militia on the road linking the districts of Al-Tahita and Al-Khokha, while they managed to dismantle the head of a 500 kg missile that was on a farm in the outskirts of al-Mokha district, west of Taiz Governorate.
In addition, on Thursday evening, the joint forces broke out an attack by the Houthi militia on its positions in Kilo 16, east of the city of Hodeidah, in conjunction with the militias resuming their operations to bombard residential villages in the Al-Duraimi district.
According to military field sources, the joint forces broke a Houthi attack carried out on their positions in kilo 16 east of the city of Hodeidah, and the militias incurred heavy losses in equipment and lives during the confrontations.
In the same context, the militias continued to bomb residential areas in the Al-Deraihmi district, using various types of weapons, including mortars, RPGs and machine guns.
The Houthi militia also renewed targeting separate areas of the Hay district, including residential neighborhoods in the northeast of the district, using random weapons, and also bombed the Beit Maghari area northwest of Hayes.
In Taiz, two children died and four others were injured in a new crime committed by the Houthi militia after they were targeted by mortar shells Thursday night, in residential neighborhoods near the central prison in the Dabab district, west of Taiz. Local sources stated that the Houthi attacks resulted in the death of the child Muhammad Ali Numan, 11, and his young brother Zaid Ali Numan, 25, and the injury of four others, including a child. In a father killed and four civilians were injured in separate incidents caused by Houthi militia members during the past two days, according to local sources, noting that Abdullah Ahmed Rassam was shot by a Houthi gunman in the Yarim district in the northeast of the governorate, while two civilians were wounded by gunfire in the Department of Poetry east of the governorate, while he was wounded Abdel-Qawi Hassan al-Qiri, by a Houthi gunman, called Abdul-Qadir Wazaa, in the Damn Nakhlan area of the Al-Siyani district.
- Coalition fighters target 13 Houthi raid sites in Mazzar, Huraib al-Qaramish District, and the Sirwah Marib area.
31 new cases of "corona" in Yemen
The Supreme National Committee for Combating the Corona Epidemic in Yemen announced Thursday evening that it had registered 31 new cases of Corona virus, including seven deaths.
She noted that the recorded cases were distributed in Aden, in which 10 cases were recorded, and 14 cases in Taiz, of which five were deaths, and seven were recorded in Lahj, including one case of death, and a death was recorded in Al-Dhali.
The total number of recorded cases increased to 591, including 136 deaths, and 23 recoveries.