Houthi escalation of violations on the West Coast fronts

The "coalition" destroys a "car bomb march" launched by the militias towards Saudi Arabia

Members of the Yemeni forces at one of the Nihm front sites near Sanaa.

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The Arab Coalition Forces to Support Legitimacy in Yemen announced that they were able, on Saturday evening, to intercept and destroy a drone booby-trapped over Yemeni airspace that was launched by the Houthi militia towards Saudi Arabia, and while the battles continued on the fronts of Ma'rib, the coalition fighters destroyed Houthi reinforcements for the second time in less than 24 hours at the Serwah front While the militias escalated their violations and operations on the fronts of the western coast of Yemen.

In the details, the spokesman for the coalition forces to support legitimacy in Yemen, Brigadier General Turki Al-Maliki, stated that “the joint coalition forces managed the day before yesterday to intercept and destroy an unmanned drone bomb in Yemeni airspace launched by the Houthi militia supported from abroad towards the Kingdom to target the notables. Civilians and civilians in a deliberate and systematic manner. ”

The coalition has repeatedly affirmed that the Houthi militias will continue their deliberate attempts to target civilians and civilian objects.

He added that he is taking the necessary measures to neutralize and destroy the capabilities of Al-Houthi, in accordance with international law.

On the other hand, sources in the joint Yemeni forces confirmed sending new reinforcements to the Hais district in the south of the Hodeidah governorate on the western coast of Yemen, represented by the 12 Giants Brigade, in light of the continuing Houthi escalation operations coming from the side of the Ibb and Taiz governorates through the Suqm Junction and the vicinity of the Al-Aden Triangle. As these areas have witnessed battles between the two sides for days.

The sources pointed out that the joint forces announced the combat readiness of the ranks of their military brigades in various areas in Hodeidah, to confront the fighting escalation of the Houthis and the operations carried out by the militia, such as digging trenches and tunnels, creating camps and sending reconnaissance aircraft to separate areas of the western coast, in addition to sending specific weapons. And sophisticated aims to threaten international shipping in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab strait.

The joint forces had monitored 132 Houthi violations and violations in separate areas south of Hodeidah, including bombardments with artillery, medium weapons, machine guns and snipers, in the districts of Heis and At-Tuhayat and others in the regions of eastern Hodeidah and Al-Durayhimi district, while two militia reconnaissance planes were spotted in the sky of the At Tuhayat District.

Meanwhile, sources in the joint forces confirmed the death of many Houthis, including Houthi leader Ibrahim Al-Dailami, commander of the eastern Hodeidah front, while they tried to infiltrate and create sites near the contact lines in Kilo 16, east of Hodeidah, and the joint forces foiled an infiltration operation towards the city of Tuhayta.

The militias targeted, late in the evening, the day before yesterday, residential neighborhoods in the district of Hais, using medium weapons, machine guns, heavy mortar shells, 82 caliber, and 60 and 120 caliber shells.

In Saada, military sources confirmed the death and injury of dozens of Houthis in the targeting of their sites by artillery and rocket launchers of the Yemeni army, in the Qataf al-Buqa district, indicating that a number of combat vehicles and weapons that were at the targeting sites were destroyed, along with the death and injury of a number of Houthis.

The Yemeni army's artillery also targeted a Houthi site in the Razih border district with Saudi Arabia, and caused direct casualties at the site, while the coalition fighters bombed Houthi sites in the districts of Al-Zahir, Shada and Baqim, leaving dead and wounded among the Houthis.

In Al-Bayda, local sources confirmed that the Houthi militia had sent huge reinforcements, including heavy combat vehicles, to the governorate during the past two days, with the aim of starting an escalation of fighting in it, noting that the Houthis carried out large mobilization operations in their areas of control recently.

On the other hand, the explosion of a Houthi gas station in the city of Al-Bayda killed 15 civilians and injured 20 others in a crime described as brutal, especially as the militias set out to place gas filling stations in the middle of residential neighborhoods without any protection tools for civilian safety.

Medical sources in the city said that the death toll from the explosion that occurred in the Al-Rahbi station rose to 15 citizens, while more than 20 people were still critically injured in the intensive care rooms of a number of hospitals in Al-Bayda and the capital, Sana'a, while the explosion led to fires in a number of homes and shops. Commercial.

In Al-Dhalea, one person was killed and another was wounded by the explosion of a landmine left over from the Houthi militia in Damt district, north of the governorate.

In Sanaa, medical sources revealed that the militias had released dozens of bodies of their fighters who had fallen on the battlefronts during the past months, and their bodies remained confined in hospital refrigerators, before the militias were forced during the past two days to release those bodies with the arrival of the bodies of their dead who fell on the fronts The vicinity of Sana'a and the western coast.

Medical sources in Sanaa stated that the Houthis returned dozens of bodies that are still stacked in hospital refrigerators under their control, and which are still holding them for fear of the collapse of the home front, as the bodies were stacked in refrigerators in a manner that foreshadows an environmental and medical disaster.

In Marib, battles continued between the army and the tribes on the one hand and the Houthi militia on the other hand, on the fronts of the western province, with the Arab coalition fighters continuing to launch qualitative raids for the second day in a row targeting Houthi reinforcements on the Hailan and Al-Mukhdarah fronts, which led to the destruction of eight combat vehicles, killing and wounding Many Houthis.

In Dhamar, a Houthi gunman killed a civilian working in the Mariyah market in the Anas district, who refused to pay monetary royalties, according to eyewitnesses, confirming that a Houthi gunman killed Ali Jahzar and injured another inside the market, after refusing to pay monetary royalties arbitrarily imposed on him.

• The joint forces monitor 132 Houthi violations and violations in separate areas south of Hodeidah.

• 15 civilians were killed and 20 wounded in an explosion of a Houthi gas station in Al-Bayda city.

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