During the Eid Al Fitr holiday

Houthi militias step up their operations in 6 Yemeni governorates

Fighters of the Yemeni legitimate forces in Marib.

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The Yemeni army forces and tribes supported by the Arab Coalition to Support Legitimacy have foiled attacks and infiltration attempts by Houthi militia members, which escalated their operations in six Yemeni governorates during the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, and the militias suffered dozens of dead and wounded, and the Houthis continued to mobilize and push reinforcements to the vicinity of the city of Marib.

In detail, the Houthi militia stepped up its operations during the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, and launched widespread attacks on the Yemeni army and resistance positions, targeting residential areas in six Yemeni governorates, and launched drones and three ballistic missiles that were intercepted and destroyed by the coalition defenses.

Yemeni field sources stated that the militias did not achieve any breakthrough on the ground during their recent escalation, in the governorates of Ma'rib, Al-Jawf, Taiz, Al-Bayda, Al-Dhale and Al-Hodeidah.

In Marib, field sources confirmed that the army and tribes forces managed to inflict heavy losses on the militias on the "Kassara and Al-Mashjah fronts, and the Maas camp" during the past few days, and attacks broke out and infiltration attempts were thwarted towards their sites in those areas.

The sources pointed out that a Houthi attack on the Al-Mashjah, Al-Zour, Al-Balq Al-Qibli and Al-Kasara fronts, west of the Ma'rib governorate, had caused great losses, with the active participation of the coalition fighters that launched a series of concentrated raids that led to the destruction of combat vehicles and a number of deaths and injuries among the militias.

The sources pointed out that 13 military vehicles, including four armored vehicles, 23 caliber weapons, and mortars belonging to the Houthis were destroyed during the militia attempt to advance towards "Al-Zour and Al-Tala Al-Reda" at the Al-Kassara front, while a Houthi weapons store in the vicinity of Al-Mashjah was destroyed.

For its part, the coalition fighters destroyed Houthi fighting vehicles that the militias were pushing to Tibet, "Al-Hanakah and Al-Jumaima", leaving dead and wounded among the Houthis.

The sources confirmed the killing of Houthi leaders, including «Khaled Ali Mutahhar, Abdullah Muhammad Sharaf al-Nawa, Abd al-Latif Ahmad al-Washli, and Abd al-Wahid al-Gharabani».

The militias pushed all their weight to the vicinity of Marib, including the special forces brigades with specific training, and increased the pace of their mobilization of fighters in their areas of control and raised the value of the sums paid to 100 thousand riyals for every human element that is mobilized.

The militias had requested a truce in Marib for a period of three days during Eid al-Fitr, and an agreement was reached with the army and tribes forces, as the agreement was signed by Muhammad al-Amir and Jalal al-Ruwaishan, on the side of the Houthis, and Sheikh Ali Saleh al-Arada and Alawi al-Basha by the legitimate forces, and it was revoked after a few hours From the agreement by the Houthis, who used the truce to push reinforcements to the vicinity of Marib.

In Al-Jawf, the army and tribes' forces managed to break the Houthi militia’s attack on their sites in the Huwaishan front, east of the city of Al-Hazm, the capital of the governorate, and inflicted heavy losses on them. The forces seized medium and light weapons and quantities of various ammunition after launching a counter-attack on Houthi sites in the Al-Rayyan desert. Surrounding the Huwaishan Mountains.

The Staff of the Sixth Military Region, Brigadier General Muhammad bin Rasiya, confirmed that victory over the Houthis in Al-Jawf was nearing, indicating during his inspection of the Al-Rayyan, Hweishan, Al-Alam and Al-Jaffar fronts east of Al-Hazm city, that the army forces are closer to achieving the great victory over the Houthis, and entering their strongholds in Saada, Amran and Sanaa. .

The coalition fighters launched a series of raids on Houthi sites, gatherings and vehicles in the Khub Al Sha`af district, Al Hazm area and the areas between Al Jawf and Marib, leaving dead and wounded among the militias and destroying Houthi combat vehicles.

In Taiz, the army and resistance forces thwarted a Houthi attack in the air defense front northwest of the city, on the fronts of “Jabal Han, Maqabneh, and Al-Tatar, in the west of the governorate, and on the Salou fronts southeast of Taiz,” where the Houthis were inflicted 37 dead, and 34 others were wounded, including two Of the field leaders, 13 of the army and resistance ranks were killed and 12 others were wounded.

In Al-Bayda, the joint forces and the Houthi militia exchanged artillery and missile strikes on the Thara front, located between Al-Bayda and Abyan governorate, and the clashes focused on the heights of the Barkan mountains, after the militias bombed the joint forces' positions with artillery, which prompted the latter to respond to the sources of fire.

In Al-Dhalea, Houthi militias bombed residential villages in the west and north of the Marais area, indiscriminately, and diverted the advance on the road linking Damt to Maris, but the joint and southern forces managed to thwart the attempt to advance and inflict heavy losses on the Houthis.

Field sources reported that the Houthis, stationed in Jabal Nasa and the Al-Arfaf area, bombed the villages adjacent to their stationing areas with Katyusha rockets and artillery, which prompted the Joint and Southern Corps to respond to the sources of fire.

And in Hodeidah, on the western coast of Yemen, militias savagely bombed the seam zones in the Hais front, wounding the child, Imtenan Ahmed Abdo, with a bullet from a Houthi sniper.

The joint forces were able to extinguish Houthi fire that was targeting residential areas and farms in the Al-Jah area of ​​the Beit Al-Faqih District.

• Destroying a "Houthi" weapons store and 13 military vehicles, including four armored vehicles, in Marib.

• Al Houthi militia randomly bombed residential villages in the west and north of Mers.

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