The Houthi group condemned the intensive raids that the Saudi-Emirati coalition has been carrying out since yesterday on the capital, Sanaa, and other areas in Yemen, and denounced the Arab and international silence regarding what he described as aggression.

Houthi political bureau member Muhammad al-Bakhiti vowed to continue military operations inside the Saudi rear. He said that the group will not weigh the international community and Security Council resolutions because it stands against Yemen as he put it, noting that the upcoming operations will be announced after they occur.

For his part, the spokesman for the group, Muhammad Abd al-Salam, said, "The Yemeni people are adhering to their right to self-defense, and they stand with the army and the committees in carrying out the harshest operations."

Abdel Salam added, in a tweet on Twitter, that this comes against the background of the ongoing siege and the criminal attacks he described on the capital, Sanaa, and other governorates.

He said that what he described as aggression is silent on the Arab and international levels, and what is practiced against the Yemeni people finds only statements of condemnation from the United Nations and others.

In light of an ongoing siege, criminal raids on the capital, Sanaa, and several governorates in an aggression that is silent on the Arab and international levels.

- Mohamed Abdel Salam (@abdusalamsalah) July 1, 2020

Yemeni sources have told Al-Jazeera that the Saudi-Emirati coalition aircraft launched more than forty raids during the past hours on areas in Yemen that included Sana'a, Marib, Al-Bayda, Al-Jawf, Saada and Hajjah.

Al-Masirah TV affiliated to the Houthis said that air strikes targeted today the capital, Sanaa, the governorates of Ma'rib, Al-Jawf, Al-Bayda, Hajjah and Saada.

During the past 24 hours, coalition fighters have also launched a number of raids on the Al-Bayda (central) and Marib (east) provinces.

Sources in the legitimate government announced today that more than 241 Houthi people were killed in battles and bombing in Al Bayda Governorate, within 10 days.

This came after the coalition announced the start of a military operation against what it described as legitimate targets to neutralize and destroy the Houthi capabilities and in conjunction with a visit by the international envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths to Riyadh.

Military operation
For its part, Saudi official television reported today that the Riyadh-led coalition launched a military operation against after the movement recently stepped up its attacks with missiles and aircraft traveling across the border.

Al-Ikhbariya TV said that the coalition, which has been fighting the movement for five years in Yemen, will hold a press conference on the operation carried out against "legitimate" Houthi targets aimed at neutralizing the movement's military capabilities.

Last week, the Houthis launched missiles that reached the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in the first attack of its kind since the ceasefire ended, announced for six weeks due to the outbreak of the new Corona virus (Covid-19), at the end of last May.

Demonstrations in Taiz
and Taiz, demonstrators said that the Saudi-Emirati coalition deviated from its goal of restoring legitimacy through its military intervention and its work to topple the Yemeni state and weaken the legal authority.

The demonstrators expressed their rejection of the behavior of the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and they said that it was a deeper behavior in the fragmentation of Yemen and the occupation of some of its provinces, as they refused to form any armed groups outside the legitimacy of the state.

A statement issued by the organizers of the demonstration called on the legitimate authority to return to practice its work from inside the country, as well as calling for the lifting of the siege on Taiz and the restoration of the western coast of the governorate.

Yemeni politicians and military accuse the UAE of seeking to separate the coast of the governorate of Taiz from the center of the governorate, and isolate it geographically, in order to facilitate keeping it under the control of forces loyal to it.

The defection of a military commander
In a related context, the Houthi group announced the defection of a military commander from the forces backed by the Emirates on the western coast of Yemen, and his joining its ranks.

Houthi media reported that Abdul-Malik Khamash Al-Abyad, the commander of the war operations in the UAE-backed National Resistance Forces led by Tariq Saleh, son of the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh's brother, returned to Sana'a and joined the ranks of the group.

From time to time, the Houthis announce the defection of soldiers and officers from these forces and their return to Sana'a, without issuing from its leadership an explanation regarding these defections.