The United Nations confirms that the attack threatens to displace hundreds of thousands

United States: The Houthi attack on Marib is the work of a group not committed to peace

Members of the joint forces on one of the fighting fronts against the militias.

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The Yemeni army forces and the tribes backed by the Arab coalition to support legitimacy in Yemen managed to thwart Houthi militia attacks on strategic areas in Marib, and the United States confirmed that “the Houthi attack on Marib is the work of a group that is not committed to peace or ending the war,” while the United Nations announced that the Houthi attack Marib threatens to displace hundreds of thousands.

In detail, the United States called on the Houthi militias, yesterday, to stop the progress towards the city of Marib, and to participate in international efforts aimed at reaching a political solution to the war in Yemen, and the US State Department said in a statement: “The United States urges the Houthis to stop their advance towards Marib and to stop all Military operations, a return to negotiations, the Houthi attack on Marib, the work of a group that is not committed to peace, or an end to the war that afflicted the people of Yemen.

For his part, the United Nations aid official, Mark Lowcock, affirmed that the Houthi attack on Marib was endangering two million civilians and threatening to displace hundreds of thousands, due to unimaginable humanitarian consequences.

In addition, field sources in the Marib governorate confirmed that the Yemeni army forces and the tribes supported by the Arab coalition had repelled a large-scale attack by the Houthi militia on the strategic Masariyah Tabet and thwarted the attack and forced the militia members to retreat and flee to their previous locations after inflicting heavy losses.

The sources pointed out that Tibbat al-Masariya is the barrier to the city of Marib, and with its fall, all of Marib is in the hands of the Houthis, so the militias focused on it greatly, but they were unable to control it.

The sources pointed out that the battles are taking place between the two sides on the two fronts of Al-Zour, north of the city, specifically in the vicinity of the Balkan Mountains, to which reinforcements of the Yemeni army forces arrived from the third military zone in Marib, and reinforcements from the second military region in Hadramout, in addition to strengthening the special security forces in Marib, whose units arrived To the Balkan front, to participate in the defense of the city.

The battles continued on other fronts in Marib, the fiercest centered on the Serwah fronts in the west of the governorate, where the army and tribes forces managed to lure Houthi fighters east of the Mas camp, killing 23 Houthis, including the commander of the groups, and six combat vehicles were destroyed, and Houthi reinforcements were also targeted. In the region of Nabaa near the Maas junction.

The coalition fighters targeted Houthi sites and reinforcements, at dawn yesterday, on the fronts of Sarwah, and others in the district of Medghal and the outskirts of Raghwan between Al-Jawf and Marib, which led to the destruction of Houthi combat vehicles and the killing and wounding of their members on board.

Battles also continued on the al-Khakkar, al-Kassara, and Hailan fronts, west of Ma'rib, leaving a large number of deaths among the militia, including four field leaders.

The Houthi militia bombed the vicinity of Dhanna in the Sarwah district, west of Ma'rib, which is inhabited by about 700 displaced families, with a number of shells, hours after they targeted the Al-Zour IDP camp in the west of the governorate with a ballistic missile and a number of Katyusha rockets, which led to deaths and injuries among the displaced, and burning A number of tents.

In Saada, the Yemeni army forces targeted, yesterday evening, a Houthi site in the north of the Baqim district, according to the intelligence corner of the 9th Brigade, Border Guard, Colonel Marwan Al-Kamali, who confirmed that the attack targeted the deaf community in the north of the district and left dead and wounded among the Houthis.

The official Yemeni News Agency (Saba) quoted Al-Kamali as saying that the army carried out a qualitative operation targeting the Houthi reinforcements and fortifications in Tabab al-Sama, located on the international line in the Baqim district, which led to the death of six Houthi members, wounding others, and destroying combat vehicles belonging to the militias.

In Al-Dhalea, militias were killed and wounded by the joint and southern forces, which launched a qualitative attack on militia sites in the Battar sector, west of Qataba, which led to the liberation of a number of sites.

The Houthis bomb an area of ​​700 displaced families in Sirwah, west of Ma'rib.

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