Yesterday, the Arab Coalition Forces to Support Legitimacy in Yemen foiled a plot by the Houthi militia targeting international navigation in the Red Sea, where the coalition destroyed two booby-trapped boats off the coast of Yemen, and a ballistic missile fired by the Houthi militia to target civilians in the Ma'rib Governorate, while informed sources warned from Houthi scheme targeting oil sources in Marib.
In the details, the spokesperson for the Forces for Support of Legitimacy Support in Yemen, Colonel Turki al-Maliki, announced that yesterday, the joint forces of the coalition were able to carry out a specific operation to target and destroy two legitimate military targets of the Houthi militia, 6 km south of the port of Al-Salif in Hodeidah Governorate, as an imminent threat On the shipping lines and world trade and as a threat to regional and international security.
Al-Maliki said that the two destroyed targets were two booby-trapped boats, 6 kilometers south of the port of Al-Salif and 215 meters from the coast. They were prepared to carry out imminent hostilities and terrorist operations in the Bab al-Mandab strait and the southern Red Sea.
He also clarified that the targeting process was in accordance with international humanitarian law and its customary rules, and preventive measures were taken to protect civilians in the process.
Al-Maliki indicated that Houthi militias are taking Hodeidah governorate to launch ballistic missiles, drones, booby-trapped and remote-operated boats, and indiscriminately deploy sea mines in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and in violation of the provisions of the Stockholm Agreement.
He stressed the continued leadership of the coalition's joint forces by applying the measures and measures necessary to deal with such legitimate military objectives that pose an imminent threat, in line with international humanitarian law and its customary rules, and continued support for the efforts of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General to implement the Stockholm Agreement and end the coup, and reach a political solution A sustainable comprehensive for the Yemeni crisis. Al-Maliki said that the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia launched a ballistic missile from the Yemeni interior, and fell among civilian objects and civilians in the Al-Shabaka neighborhood in the city of Marib. He pointed out that the Houthi militia continues to violate international humanitarian law by launching ballistic missiles and indiscriminately falling at civilians, as well as population gatherings that threaten the lives of hundreds of civilians, and that this launch is a deliberate escalation against innocent civilians and comes in the context of the Houthi terrorist militia’s approach to targeting civilians and civilian objects inside Yemen and countries Neighborhood of Yemen.
He affirmed that the Alliance Joint Forces Command continues to take strict and deterrent measures to neutralize and destroy these ballistic capabilities to protect civilians inside Yemen, and to protect regional and international security. The joint Yemeni forces in Hodeidah managed, yesterday, to shoot down a Houthi march plane in the vicinity of the city of Al-Duraimi while it was flying over the city, coinciding with the Houthi shelling of residential areas in the district.
On the other hand, well-informed Yemeni sources revealed that the Houthi militia carried out large mobilization operations to wage a wide battle from several directions towards the Ma'rib Governorate with the aim of controlling oil and gas sources and electric power sources. The sources stated that the militias roam the governorates of Mahwit, Hajjah, Amran, Dhamar, Ibb and Sana'a to mobilize fighters and push them to the vicinity of Marib Governorate from three sides with the aim of storming the city, and also pushed large military equipment to the fronts surrounding Marib, pointing out that the Houthi militias drew up a plan to reach the oil fields in Marib , Using the pretext of revenge for the loyal tribe of the Al-Suba’yan tribe, which was carrying out extensive sabotage activities in Marib for the Houthis.
The sources confirmed that the militia will storm Marib from the side of Al-Abediyya in Al-Bayda, and from the side of Sarwah, Hailan, Al-Mukhaddara, Najd Al-Ataq and Al-Jawf Junction between Sana'a and Marib, and from the side of Al-Jafar, Al-Alam and Al-Dahd in Al-Jawf, explaining that the militias during the previous period managed to enter Marib from these fronts and finally started In large crowds to fight a decisive battle towards Marib. The coalition fighters launched 18 raids on military targets belonging to the Houthi militia in Marib and the vicinity of the capital, and another in the provinces of Al-Jawf and Al-Bayda, which led to the destruction of military vehicles and the death and injury of a number of Houthis. In Al-Bayda, field sources confirmed the death of 20 Houthis and the injury of others, as well as the capture of seven members of the army and tribes in the Abdiya front between Marib and Al-Bayda.
In Taiz, field sources confirmed the death of the Houthi leader Muhammad Nabil and three of his companions, and the wounding of others from their elements in a confrontation with the army while they were trying to infiltrate into the Wahr front in Jabal Habashi district, west of the city. In al-Dhalea ', the commander of the Preventive Security of the militias in the Ibb Governorate, called “Abu Jibril”, was killed in clashes with the joint forces in the front of Bab Ghalaq in the north of the governorate.
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Militias launch a ballistic missile from the Yemeni interior, which landed in Marib.