The Arab Coalition Forces in Support of Legitimacy in Yemen shot down a drone fired by Iranian-backed Houthi coup militia from Saada towards Saudi territory, a few hours after a projectile was fired towards Abha International Airport.As Coalition warplanes launched a series of raids in Sana'a in response to these attacks, forces continued The Yemeni army is supported by the Coalition advancing in the Saada Front, as militias continue to target joint positions on the west coast of Yemen.
In a statement, the spokesman for the forces of support for legitimacy in Yemen, Col. Turki al-Maliki, yesterday, the coalition was able to intercept and shoot down a drone fired by Iranian-backed Houthi militias from Saada towards Saudi Arabia.
Al-Maliki explained that attempts by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist militias to launch drones are doomed to failure, and that the coalition is taking operational measures and the best means to deal with these aircraft to protect civilians and civilian objects.
He pointed out that the recent repeated terrorist attempts by the militias are the result of significant losses among its members, equipment and equipment, through military operations carried out by the coalition.
He also pointed out that the terrorist attempts by the militias and media misinformation comes to raise the morale of its terrorist elements, stressing the continued leadership of the joint coalition forces to implement deterrent measures against those militias to neutralize their capabilities and destroy.
On the other hand, the forces of the Alliance for the Support of Legitimacy in Yemen announced the fall of a projectile at Abha International Airport, through which thousands of civilian passengers, citizens and residents of different nationalities pass daily.
The spokesman for the coalition forces, Col. Turki al-Maliki, in a statement broadcast by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), said that the projectile fell on the evening of yesterday at Abha International Airport, pointing out that there were no casualties.
He added that the Houthi terrorist militias continue their unethical practices by targeting civilians and civilian objects protected under international humanitarian law and its customary rules. They declared through their media full responsibility for this terrorist act, using a cruise missile, which represents an explicit recognition and full responsibility for targeting civilian objects and civilians. It is concerned with special protection under international humanitarian law, which may amount to a war crime by systematically targeting civilians and civilian objects.
Colonel al-Maliki pointed out that the continuation of such terrorist acts and advanced capabilities, proves the continued involvement of the Iranian regime to support the Houthi terrorist militias, and the continued violation of relevant Security Council resolutions, including resolution 2216 and resolution 2231, stressing that the leadership of the joint forces of the coalition in front of these terrorist acts and immoral violations The Houthi terrorist militias continue to implement strict measures to deter these terrorist militias in order to ensure the protection of civilian objects and civilians. The terrorist elements responsible for planning and executing this terrorist attack will be held accountable. It is incompatible with international humanitarian law and customary rules.
Meanwhile, fighter jets of the Arab coalition to support legitimacy, yesterday, raids on targets in the north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the day after the announcement of the targeting of Abha International Airport with a cruise missile.
Local residents said violent explosions were heard throughout the capital from air strikes, apparently targeting Sanaa airport and its adjacent Daylami airbase north of the capital.
Meanwhile, Yemeni army forces, supported by the Arab Coalition, continued their advance on the fronts of Saada, the stronghold of the Houthi militias and the hometown of its leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, and continued their advance in the front of Wadi al-Jbara in the shoulders of the spots, after they managed to break the militia siege on a number of soldiers in a mountain overlooking the valley. Al Jbara.
The field sources pointed out that the militias received significant losses of equipment and lives among its members, after the army forces in the front of the epaulet launched a large-scale attack with the support of the Apache Air Force of the Arab Coalition on militia positions in Wadi Al-Jbara, and managed to recover all the positions that were controlled by militias during the The last two days.
The sources pointed out that the army received significant military reinforcements, including modern military mechanisms by the Arab coalition, participated in the recent attack on Wadi Jbara, and managed to inflict the Brigade Samad and Brigade 156 of the militias heavy losses in that front.
The army began using modern radars to monitor movements of Houthi militias on the Saada fronts, conducted aerial surveys of Iranian-backed Houthi positions, and began redeploying its forces on various fronts to maps drawn up after the last aerial survey.
In al-Jawf adjacent to Sa'ada, the eastern fronts of the province witnessed violent confrontations between Yemeni army forces and Iranian militias, centered in Wadi al-Dahra, according to Colonel Abdullah al-Ashraf, spokesman for the sixth military zone, pointing out that the army was able to control new and strategic positions deep in Wadi Dorsal cavity.
Al-Ashraf confirmed the death of a number of dead and wounded in the ranks of the militias, in addition to the destruction of a number of their military vehicles, including crews and BMP vehicle, as well as machine guns.
In al-Hudaydah, on the west coast, Houthi militias continued their military escalation against joint forces positions and residential neighborhoods, using artillery shells, some of which landed on civilian homes in the town of Hays, south of Hodeidah, wounding four civilians with shrapnel of mortar shells. Field for treatment.
According to medical sources at Hays field hospital, four civilians, including an elderly man, were wounded in varying injuries, one of them seriously, as a result of indiscriminate Houthi shelling of civilian houses.
The joint forces repelled two successive Houthi militias towards al-Jah area in Beit al-Faqih district south of Hodeidah, and fought with medium and light weapons, after the militias targeted the joint positions in the area with mortar shells as part of their daily escalation.
The joint forces also repelled an attack by Houthi militias on their positions north of Hais district, south of Hodeidah, and suffered heavy losses of equipment and lives, which also came after escalating and shelling joint positions in the area with heavy weapons, 120-caliber mortars and 82-caliber shells, and howitzer artillery shells.
The militias renewed their shelling and heavy targeting on the Tahita south of Hodeidah with artillery and heavy weapons, after repeated attacks on the positions of joint forces, were confronted and defeated militia elements, and renewed shelling and targeting the Thabit Brothers industrial and commercial complex in the city of Hodeidah, which led to a large fire in One of its stores.
On the other hand, the engineering teams of the joint forces in the west coast have dismantled new quantities of mines and explosive devices planted by Houthi militias in the area of Al-Masnaa south of Hodeidah city.
Previously, the engineering teams of the joint forces dismantled and extracted large quantities of mines and improvised explosive devices planted by Houthi militias from various areas of Hodeidah province, and were detonated later.
In Sanaa, the Houthi militias closed eight private hospitals and revoked their licenses, under the pretext of non-compliance with standards, including «Sawan Hospital, White Crescent, Khazan Hospital, Al Salam Specialized Hospital, Magali Hospital, Orthopedic Hospital, Hadda Hospital, and Golden Hospital».
Since the Houthi militia took control of the capital Sana'a four years ago, it has tightened private hospitals, imposed illegal royalties and levies, stormed some hospitals, and closed others.