Today, Monday, the Yemeni government announced that the death toll from a Houthi missile attack on the village of Al-Amoud in the Al-Juba region in the Marib Governorate has risen to 39, at a time when fierce battles continue in the governorate.
And the Marib authorities had reported - early Monday - that 29 civilians had been killed or wounded in the Al-Juba district, south of the province, as a result of Houthi missile strikes on Sunday evening.
The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Muammar Al-Eryani, said that "the Houthi militia's targeting of a mosque and Dar Al-Hadith (affiliated with the Salafists) in the densely populated Al-Amoud area in Al-Juba District, with ballistic missiles, resulted in the death of 39 civilians and the injury of others," according to the official news agency, "Saba."
Witness the
effects of destruction as a result of the ballistic missile launched by the Houthis on the Sunni mosque of the Salafi Sheikh Yahya Al-Hajouri in the Al-Amoud area in the Marib governorate, killing and wounding students, children and women.
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- The Yemeni Forum for Studies and Media (@alminbaryemen) November 1, 2021
Since the beginning of last February, the Houthis have intensified their attacks on Marib, as it is the most important stronghold of the government and the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense, in addition to its enjoyment of oil and gas wealth, and the Marib gas station, which before the war supplied most of the provinces with electricity.
Al-Eryani considered that this attack "comes within the criminal approach of the militia (meaning the Houthis) to target places of worship and anyone who does not believe in its sectarian Iranian project."
Al-Eryani called on the international community, the United Nations, the Security Council, UN and US envoys and human rights organizations to carry out their legal and moral responsibilities, condemn and stop the daily killing of civilians, and prosecute and bring to account those responsible for them from the leaders and elements of the Houthi militia to account as war criminals.
There was no immediate comment from the Houthis on these statements, but the group usually denies targeting civilians.
In turn, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor condemned the Houthi bombing that targeted the "Dar Al-Hadith" center in the Al-Amoud district of Al-Juba district, in the Yemeni governorate of Ma'rib.
In a tweet on its official Twitter account, the observatory described the Houthi group's bombing of the center as a "clear disregard for all calls to neutralize civilians from military operations."
Ongoing battles
On the ground, the Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen said that they had carried out 57 operations targeting the vehicles and elements of the Ansar Allah Houthi group in the Al-Juba and Al-Kasara areas in Marib during the past 72 hours.
In turn, a military source said that 37 Houthi militants were killed during an attack on Yemeni army sites in the Serwah district, west of Ma'rib Governorate, and indicated that the Yemeni army captured 4 Houthis during the battles, without giving any details about the size of the army's losses.
The source confirmed the killing of 10 Houthi gunmen during clashes with the army forces in the vicinity of Umm Reesh camp in the Juba district, south of Marib.
In a related context, the coalition reported that the Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed a booby-trapped drone launched by the Ansar Allah Houthi group towards Khamis Mushait, in the southwest of the Kingdom.
On the other hand, the head of the Southern Revolutionary Movement Council, Hassan Baoum, said that he will enter the city of Mukalla, the capital of Hadhramaut governorate in southern Yemen, tomorrow or the day after, and that no force will be able to prevent him, referring to the decision of the Emirati forces in Hadramout to prevent him from entering.
A security point belonging to the Emirati-backed Hadrami elite prevented Baoum and a number of movement leaders from entering Mukalla, after returning from their self-imposed exile in the Sultanate of Oman, where they stayed for 7 years.
50 thousand displaced
In a related context, the Yemeni authorities announced on Monday, the displacement of more than 50,000 people from their homes in the eastern province of Ma'rib, during the past two months, due to the escalation of fighting in a number of districts of the province.
The Executive Unit for the Administration of IDPs Camps in Marib (government), said in a report that Anatolia received a copy of, that since the beginning of last September, "the hostilities of the Houthis against the safe people" in the southern districts of Marib have not stopped.
She explained that as a result of the continued hostilities of the Houthi militia and its targeting of population centers with ballistic missiles and missiles, 8,088 families were displaced from the districts of Rahba, Al-Juba, Al-Abdiya and Harib, and moved to safe areas in the governorate center and Al-Wadi district in the Marib governorate itself.
She pointed out that the number of members of these families is 54,502.
The unit said that this humanitarian situation is taking place "in light of the deteriorating and slow response situation by humanitarian partners, and the widening gap of humanitarian needs in all basic areas, which the local authority in Ma'rib Governorate is trying with its limited capabilities to save the lives of thousands of recently displaced people and alleviate their suffering, in front of a response to A very frustrated international and international humanitarian."
The unit renewed its humanitarian appeal and its call to the Yemeni government, the international community, UN agencies and organizations to assume their humanitarian responsibilities in protecting civilians and displaced persons and urgently responding to their necessary humanitarian needs.