Coalition fighters launch 18 raids on militia targets

The Yemeni army is inflicting heavy losses on the Houthis on the Al-Jawf and Ma'rib fronts

The Yemeni army forces thwarted an attempt to advance the militias in the Al-Malahit area, north of Al-Zahir District.

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On the one hand, the Yemeni army forces and the tribes on the one hand, and the Houthi militia on the other hand, witnessed violent battles between the al-Mutawq and al-Jaddafir fronts between the governorates of al-Jawf, Marib and Sana’a, as the battles and air strikes continued on the western and southern fronts of Ma'rib and Malahit in Saada and Midi in Hajjah, during which the militias suffered great losses. Meanwhile, clashes continued between the resistance and the Houthis on the Hazmieh front in Al-Bayda, while the Houthi violations escalated on the western coast fronts.

In the details, the violent battles on the Muthaq and Al-Jaddfer fronts between the governorates of Al-Jawf, Marib and Sanaa, yesterday, between the Yemeni army forces and the tribes on the one hand, and the Houthi militia on the other hand, left many dead and wounded in the ranks of the militias, according to field sources, indicating the outbreak of confrontations, at dawn Yesterday, after the militias tried to advance on both fronts, while sending reinforcements to them with the aim of achieving a little victory, to raise the morale of their collapsed elements.

The Yemeni army forces and the tribes had taken, since the end of last year, a military strategy aimed at depleting the militias and advancing in ruling areas around the capital, while preserving and securing them and not enabling the Houthis to regain them, as was the case in previous wars.

The Jabal al-Mutabiq front, between Marib and al-Jawf, is one of the most important fronts in which the militias try to advance, with the aim of encircling Marib from the Jawf side, and the Jadafir front is one of the strategic fronts between the capital, Sanaa, and al-Jawf, from which reinforcements are sent to al-Jawf and Marib.

In Marib, the Yemeni army forces and the tribes, yesterday, carried out a qualitative military operation in the Jabal Murad front, south of the governorate, with great support from the coalition fighters, which led to the pushback of the Houthis to the areas separating Jabal Murad and Rahba district, days after the militias sent large reinforcements to the areas Near Jabal Murad.

Field sources stated that the Yemeni army forces and the tribes, with the great support of the coalition fighters that launched more than 18 air strikes on Houthi sites and targets in the region, were able to secure strategic areas and supply routes between Murad and Rahba, and inflict more than 20 dead and dozens of wounded on the militias. As well as burning vehicles and combat vehicles belonging to it.

In the Al-Mashjah front, west of Ma'rib, the army, tribes and coalition fighters bombed Houthi reinforcements and gatherings in the area, including heavy combat equipment, a 122 cannon, 85 mortars, and vehicles, in addition to killing seven Houthi elements and wounding others, and the destruction of “Dashm” and snipers, while the coalition fighter raids resulted in the Destruction of high-quality weapons that the militias were pushing to the fronts west of Marib, including missile launchers and drones.

In Al-Bayda, battles continued between the local resistance and the militias in the Hazmieh front in the Al-Souma District, for the second day in a row, during which the resistance managed to destroy a Houthi combat vehicle and damage another, in addition to killing and wounding many Houthis, while the coalition fighters bombed a Houthi site containing a variety of weapons in Nati'a district in the same governorate.

In Saada, the Yemeni army forces, backed by the Arab coalition, thwarted an attempt to advance by Houthi fighters in the Malahit region, north of Al-Zahir District, and inflicted heavy losses on them, as well as an infiltration attempt by Houthi elements to the areas between Midi and Haradh in Hajjah Governorate.

In the capital, Sana'a, clashes erupted between the Arhab tribes and Houthi militia members, following the escalation of disputes between the Habbar tribes and the Naka'i tribes loyal to the Houthis, against the backdrop of the militia’s attempt to liquidate the tribal sheikh, Faris al-Habbari, appointed by it as governor of Rima governorate, who is accused of being behind the operation, the Houthi leader, a member of the so-called The Supreme Political Council, Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi.

The tribes of Arhab accused the militias of igniting the fighting in their areas, pushing armed elements, and sending weapons to the Al-Naka'i tribes to eliminate Beit Al-Habbari, which has extensive trade in the capital, Sanaa, and the militias aim to seize it.

On the other hand, the Yemeni Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Muammar Al-Eryani, warned of a Houthi plot, describing it as malicious, planned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the capital, Sana'a, indicating in a tweet to him that “a malicious scheme run by the Houthi militia and Revolutionary Guards, to mobilize Citizens by force to gather in the kidnapped capital, Sana'a, and carry out bombings among civilians under the cover of (Al Qaeda) and (ISIS), to cover up their terrorist attack on Aden International Airport, and to solicit sympathy and attract the international community.

In Hodeidah, the engineering teams of the joint forces defused, the day before yesterday, a "seashell" sea mine, which the militias planted in the waters of the Red Sea, according to a source in the engineering team, indicating that the marine mine is an Iranian industry of the type of "seashell" that explodes upon collision. It was suspended from a fisherman's net near the fish landing center in the Taif region in the Al-Durayhimi district.

The source pointed out that this mine is the second of its kind in less than two weeks, in the same area and the 23 that were found and disposed of by the joint forces' engineering during the last period, in addition to dozens of similar mines found by the rest of the engineering teams of the joint forces operating on the western coast.

In addition, the Houthi militia bombed a farm belonging to Salem Ali Salem Abdal, located in the Al-Jabaliya area of ​​the Tuhayat District, which led to his injury in the spine, causing him permanent disability, and the militia targeted villages, residential neighborhoods, and farms in separate areas in the south of Al-Hudaydah governorate, in Framework of escalation and violations of the UN armistice.

The joint forces monitored 72 violations and violations committed by the Houthi militia in less than eight hours, which included hostile operations by bombing and targeting villages and separate residential neighborhoods, in which medium machine guns and heavy artillery were used.

- The joint forces defused a "seashell" sea mine, which the militias planted in the Red Sea waters in Hodeidah.

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In violation and violation of the UN armistice, the Houthi militia committed it in less than eight hours, which included hostile operations and targeting villages and residential neighborhoods in Hodeidah.

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