The coalition destroyed 8 booby-trapped drones launched by the Houthi militia towards Saudi Arabia

The coalition air forces intercepted Houthi drones over Yemeni airspace.

EPA

The Arab Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen announced that the Saudi air defenses destroyed, yesterday, eight booby-trapped drones launched by the Houthi group towards the south of the Kingdom.

While the Yemeni army forces and tribes thwarted militia attacks on the fronts west of Marib, they carried out an ambush against the Houthis in Jadfar al-Jawf, and thwarted Houthi movements on the western coast.

In detail, the coalition announced, yesterday, the interception and destruction of a drone "booby-trapped", launched by the Houthi militia towards the city of Khamis Mushait, southwest of Saudi Arabia, simultaneously, pointing to the interception and destruction of seven booby-trapped drones launched by the militias towards the southern region of the Kingdom.

The coalition said that the air force intercepted the drones over Yemeni airspace, and confronted the hostile attempt, noting that the Houthis' deliberate and systematic hostile attempts constitute war crimes.

The coalition confirmed that it takes operational measures to protect civilians and civilian objects from hostile attacks.

In Marib, local sources confirmed that the Houthi militia bombed the city of Marib, with two ballistic missiles, which fell in residential neighborhoods in the city, which is densely populated and displaced.

The sources indicated that the militias launched the missiles from the "West Habbab" area between Sanaa and Marib, where there are mobile ballistic missile launchers used by the militias to bomb civilian objects in Marib and southern Saudi Arabia.

With this attack, the number of ballistic missiles that have fallen on the city of Marib since the beginning of this year has risen to 60, and 13 drones, killing and wounding 348 civilians, and destroying homes, places of worship and schools.

The warplanes of the coalition launched a series of focused raids, targeting Houthi reinforcements, including combat mechanisms that were pushed to the vicinity of Ma'rib, where they bombed their gatherings and vehicles in the vicinity of Bani Dabyan, Wadi Dhanna, and above Wadi Rahba, Baqtha and Jabal Murad, on the outskirts of Majzar districts. Madghal, Raghwan, and Sirwah, which left dead and wounded, and destroyed Houthi vehicles.

In Al-Jawf, 10 Houthi elements, including a field leader, were killed and others were wounded in a new ambush carried out by the army and tribes on the Jadafer front, east of the city of Al-Hazm, the capital of the province.

In Saada, eight Houthi militants were killed and 20 others were wounded in a large-scale attack by the army forces backed by the Arab coalition, on the Kataf al-Baq' front.

In Al-Bayda, local sources confirmed that the Houthi militia sent combat reinforcements from Dhamar towards the Qaniya area, with the aim of launching new attacks towards southern Marib from those areas.

In Hodeidah, a number of Houthi militia members were killed and others were injured after they tried to carry out a failed infiltration operation to penetrate the contact lines in the Hays sector, after bringing in reinforcements from the Jabal Ras Directorate, and pushed them towards the liberated areas east of the city of Hays.

Sources in the joint forces had confirmed the failure of Houthi movements in three sectors on the western coast, noting that fire sources had been extinguished and Houthi movements had been thwarted in Kilo 16 and the city of Al-Saleh, east of the city of Hodeidah, as well as northwest of the city of Al-Durayhimi, and on the international road linking the districts of Zabid and Al-Tuhayta.

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