The Yemeni army forces, backed by the Arab Coalition to Support Legitimacy, continued their progress in the "Baqem - Al-Safra" Front in Saada Governorate, north of Yemen, and coalition fighters managed to destroy Houthi fortifications and military mechanisms on the same front, while military and other local sources in Al Hudaydah governorate revealed movements of Houthi militia elements With the participation of Iranian elements threatening navigation in the Red Sea, at a time when the joint forces in al-Dhalea repelled a militia attack in Battar.
In detail, the Yemeni army forces, backed by the Arab alliance, continued to advance for the fourth consecutive day in the "Baqem - Al-Safra" front in Saada governorate, achieving successive victories at the expense of the Houthi militias that received painful and focused strikes, and field sources confirmed yesterday that Yemeni forces backed by coalition fighters managed From entering new areas in the Directorate of Safra from the direction of the Baqim Triangle, achieving great progress in the vicinity of the Al-Tira chain and the strategic jewel, and its full control over a number of cemeteries, valleys, and dirt roads that formed the supply lines for the militias between the districts of Baqim and Al-Safra.
The sources pointed out that the recent Yemeni army operations in the areas between Baqim and Al-Safra came with great support from the Arab coalition fighters that launched a series of raids focused on militia sites in those areas that led to the destruction of their fortifications and military mechanisms that were concentrated in them, along with the deaths and injuries in The ranks of Houthi elements, which enabled the ground forces to enter and control these areas.
Coalition fighters launched a series of raids on militia sites in the vicinity of al-Zahir Directorate from the direction of the Haydan district, the stronghold of militia leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, and local sources said that violent explosions witnessed militia sites in Wadi Bin Jarad, which descended from Haydan district, towards al-Zahir. Coalition fighters also targeted Houthi positions in Razih Border Directorate, achieving direct Houthi reinforcements.
In Hodeidah, on the western coast of Yemen, military sources revealed that arrangements and movements are being made by elements of the Houthi militia militia with the support of experts from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and elements of the Lebanese "Hezbollah" to launch attacks on international navigation in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab.
According to the sources, locals in the July 7 neighborhood east of Al Hudaydah city witnessed a large movement of militia elements backed by military mechanisms carrying large missiles that were brought into the area, in addition to the deployment of armed elements from the so-called "coastal brigade" which the militias recently disclosed and threatened to target International shipping in the Red Sea.
In recent weeks, Houthi militias have sent large reinforcements to several areas in the western coast and the city of Hodeidah coming from Dhamar, Ibb, Al Mahwit, Hajjah, Amran and Rima, which include military vehicles and missile launchers.
To that, yesterday, Houthi militias continued to bomb and target the sites of the joint Yemeni forces in the mountainous and Faza areas of the district of Al-Tahita, south of Hodeidah, with more than 17 shells and guided missiles, and also continued to create military sites in the Thawabiyah area, where bulldozers were seen carrying out trenches and building earthworks In which.
Militias targeted residential sites and neighborhoods in the Hayis district, using artillery, machine guns, and snipers.
The head of operations for the 7th brigade in the "Giants Brigades" of the joint forces, Colonel Akram Daak, confirmed that the brigade's forces were able to counter large-scale attacks by Houthi elements towards the forces' positions in the western district of Hays, and that the militias had suffered great losses of equipment and lives, along with the fall of prominent field leaders In the ranks of the Houthis in those attacks.
According to field sources, the militias continued their bombing of the Upper Jah area in the Beit al-Faqih directorate with mortar shells, and they dug new trenches east of the city of Hodeidah with the aim of reaching the strategic Kilo 16 area that links Hodeidah to a number of governorates, indicating that the militias have shelled the joint forces positions in the vicinity of the Durehemi Directorate With different types of weapons.
Local sources reported that the Houthi militia kidnapped a sheikh of the village of Dahna in the countryside of Bajil district, and took him to an unknown destination before he was found slaughtered and severed in one of the village's wells, noting that the militia launched a major campaign over the past days against the headlands of the areas under their control in Hodeidah For not responding to the mobilization of elements to fight in their ranks.
In Al-Dhalea, violent clashes broke out, yesterday morning, between the joint forces and the militias, against the backdrop of the Houthis' attempts to infiltrate and return to the liberated areas of Al-Fakhir, Al-Jab, and Hajar.
Local sources in Al-Dhalea revealed the death of the Houthi leader called "Abu Talha Al-Sanani", who is responsible for supplying the Houthi militia fronts in Al-Dhali, in the town of Beit Al-Anal in the Directorate of Qataba, in mysterious circumstances, likely to have been liquidated by the militia elements in the context of their struggle for influence and looted funds.
In Taiz, field sources reported that a number of Houthi elements were wounded and wounded in battles between the army and militias in the Al-Dumniyah and Ansoh positions in the Air Defense Front in the west.
According to the Yemeni army website, the army forces thwarted an attempt to infiltrate the militias and incurred heavy losses, and forced Houthi elements to retreat and flee.
The city of Taiz witnessed clashes between armed elements affiliated with the Reform Party and the Special Security Forces next to the Taiz Security Administration, which is tasked with protecting the Garden City Park and the College of Arts. According to local sources, the “reform” elements suddenly attacked the security personnel, which resulted in the injury of a number of soldiers.
The sources pointed out that the "reform" elements tried to plunder one of the military vehicles of the Special Security Forces, but they failed as a result of the soldiers' response to the attack, pointing out that the attack came to cover the attack of the "reform" elements on the network prison in Taiz and their smuggling of prisoners from their elements.