Military operations on the West Coast fronts escalated following the daily shelling and targeting of Iranian-backed Houthi coup militia elements towards the Yemeni joint forces' positions, prompting the United Nations to accuse the militias of seeking to thwart the Swedish agreement, while the joint forces continued their advance on the western fronts of Taiz. Aerial bombardments continued against Houthi positions in Hajjah, while military actions continued in the western and northern fronts of Dali '.
Military and local sources in al-Hudaydah province, on the west coast of Yemen, confirmed the situation on the fronts of the coast towards military escalation, against the backdrop of the recent events caused by the Iranian-backed Houthi coup militia in the districts of Duraimi, Hays and al-Mukhaya. To the Chairman of the International Observer Group in Hodeidah, Abhijit Guha.
The UN statement, in the words of its team leader in Hodeidah, clearly accused the Houthi militias of military escalation on the Sahel fronts by introducing fortifications, moving troops and launching missile attacks on several fronts, contrary to the Stockholm agreement arrangements.
In recent days, there have been reports of incidents involving the development of new fortifications, troop movements and the use of drones, according to a statement issued by the head of the international observer team in Hodeidah province, stressing that this is contrary to the ceasefire agreements in Hodeidah. However, given the fragility of the situation in Hodeidah, the team urges the parties in Yemen to continue to engage jointly and in good faith through the truce mechanism and to strengthen the ceasefire to deal with incidents that may constitute an escalation of violence in Hodeida.
Her statement was her second in a week on the continued military escalation on the Sahel fronts, reaffirming UNAMI's commitment to supporting the Hodeidah Agreement to continue to support the parties' work through the Mechanism, and reiterating his call on the parties to desist from any actions contrary to the Stockholm Agreement.
Meanwhile, Al-Houthi militias continued their military escalation and launched daily attacks on the positions of the Yemeni joint forces and residential neighborhoods in several areas.
A source in the joint Yemeni forces said that the militias launched an intensive and heavy shelling with 120-mm heavy artillery shells, which affected the positions of the forces stationed in the area with 82-caliber mortar shells and artillery shells.
The source pointed out that the militias bombed «joint» sites in the Directorate of Hays, using machine guns and snipers and Dushka and weapons and pika and 14.5 weapons, and the joint forces managed to foil the attack of the militias, and launched a counterattack towards their positions in the northwest of the Directorate, to which Houthi elements fled. A large-scale sweep, demolition of roadblocks and barricades, the destruction of a 23-caliber weapon, and the burning of an armory of Houthi militias in the farms of the people of Bani Zuhair west of Hays.
The militias also continued to escalate in al-Duraimi district and al-Jah area of Beit al-Faqih district, where more than 16 mortar shells were fired by the militias on residential neighborhoods in the area, and four Katyusha rockets and a number of artillery shells were fired at al-Duraimi.
In Taizz, the joint forces continued their military operations in the west of the province, achieving victories and qualitative advances, according to field sources, noting that the joint forces heavily bombarded the Houthi positions in al-Barah area, which led to the destruction of military vehicles stationed near the Barh cement factory, and left Dead and wounded in their ranks.
The sources pointed out that the joint forces pushed new reinforcements to the perimeter of Al-Barh, and advanced towards Al-Barh makha junction, and imposed a fire control on a number of roads heading towards Al-Barh and Wadi Rsian, and towards the distributor directorate, and the center of the Directorate of Mukbana, and now oversees the junction of those roads.
Meanwhile, the old airport front west of the city of Taiz witnessed confrontations and military operations of the Yemeni army against the Houthi militias that attempted to advance in the region in response to the developments of al-Birh, but failed due to the steadfastness of the troops stationed in the air defense, 30th Street and the old airport, which inflicted five militias dead and a number of wounded. During recent operations.
Taiz witnessed a demonstration by school students against the presence of armed members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city, who practice terrorism, intimidation, killing and kidnapping, and impose money on residents of the city, exhausted by the siege imposed by the Houthi militias on them five years ago.
According to local residents, the city witnessed mass demonstrations by schoolchildren, mainly the Bakathir school in the Rawda neighborhood, demanding the removal of armed elements from the city, which turned a number of schools into military barracks.
In Saada, Houthi militias opened fire on civilians taking the main roads in Ghamr district, causing deaths and injuries among the population, in light of the state of terror and panic among its members, on the back of news of the entry of units of the Yemeni army to the Directorate To start the extensive editing process in them.
Local sources in the Directorate confirmed that there is a state of tension and mobilization by the residents of the Directorate against the Houthi elements, which practiced against them all kinds of persecution in recent years, stressing the existence of popular anger in the Directorate towards Houthi elements.
In Hajja, Arab Alliance fighter jets launched on Saturday evening, air strikes on sites and gatherings of Houthi militias in the Directorate of Abs, targeting sites and gatherings for them, leaving dead and wounded, and the destruction of military vehicles belonging to them.
In Sanaa, the militia leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, renewed his fears of popular protests rejecting their presence, warning in a televised speech broadcast on Saturday evening, the youth of chaos in receiving media on social networks, calling for avoiding what happened in Lebanon and Iraq. "I warn young people of the chaos of receiving media on social media and the media," he said, in a clear reference to militias seeking restrictions on websites and the Internet.
Meanwhile, the Houthi militias in the Yemeni capital Sanaa kidnapped 26 officers of the Political Security Intelligence (SSI), headed by Brigadier General Ali al-Shahathi, and placed them in secret prisons, on the background of information about their pursuit of the uprising and coup against the militias. A positive indication of the movement of the security and military forces that the militias took control during their coup against legitimacy in 2014, in the face of the militias exercised against them and the people of the areas under their control of all kinds of persecution.
In al-Dhali, Yemeni and southern forces exchanged shelling with Houthi militias on the fronts of al-Fakher and al-Jab on Saturday evening, using various heavy weapons, according to field sources, confirming renewed clashes with heavy weapons, the two sides concentrate their necks in the front «Jab Sabira», where artillery managed The combined forces of the Dek militia positions in that front. The artillery forces also pounded militia positions and fortifications on the fronts of Sabira and Sha'ur-al-Jub, Battar, Miah, and Mashariha, and bombed Houthi gatherings in the al-Fakhri house of Merkhazah-al-Fakher, and failed an infiltration attempt by the Houthis at the bottom of Naqil al-Khashaba and Qurain al-Fahad.
In addition, the militias continued to kidnap the people of the northern and western areas of Al-Dhala and the areas adjacent to Abyan governorate, and raided a number of houses in Dhuran area in Al-Hasha district, abducting a number of the area and transferring them to unknown destinations.
In al-Bayda, the Houthi field commander, Mohammad Hadi al-Gharbani, was killed by local resistance men in the Hazmiyah Front, who is the field supervisor of militia positions in the al-Meshar area of the al-Suma'a district, and is also a supervisor of the Awein point on the Azzan road.
Joint Yemeni forces achieve victories and qualitative advances in Taiz province.
Houthi militias continue abductions against people in areas north and west of al-Dali '.