Arab Coalition air defense systems in Yemen destroyed on Tuesday a ballistic missile launched by the Houthi militias towards Marib, east of the capital Sanaa. Military sources said that the coalition defenses intercepted and destroyed the missile before it hit target.
The Saudi-led Arab coalition, in its third year, has intervened to back the Aden-based government led by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is internationally recognized and backed by the United Nations.
On the other hand, fighting between Iran-backed Houthis and the pro-government forces continued on various fronts.
Official military sources confirmed the death of at least 30 Houthi militants, killed in Arab Coalition Air Strikes which targeted a gathering of militias in Jawf Province.
Yemeni armed forces media center said that the militiamen dead were killed in Thursday raids—the strikes also destroyed several tanks and military vehicles. The source added that militias suffered significant human and material losses in Aqaba, Sabrin, Hebei and Shaf north of Jawf.
In Al Bayda province, coalition aircraft intensified strikes on militia concentrations in mountain areas.
More so, at least three Houthis were killed yesterday in clashes with the legitimate forces west of Taiz province, the state-run Saba news agency reported. The agency said that militiamen tried to ambush army positions in Mount Haid al-Hamam.
Field sources in Hodeidah reported on Tuesday that coalition fighters raided at dawn militia outposts in the province, and left dozens killed and injured. Witnesses confirmed that the militias transferred the bodies of those killed and injured to coup-controlled hospitals in the city of Zabid and Hodeidah.
The coup group has finally moved top leaders to the Hodeidah province in an attempt to boost the morale of its militias and to pressure locals to recruit their children to be used as cannon fodder. Militia coup leader Saleh al-Samad appeared on the West Coast in Hodeidah on Tuesday with a group of hundreds of new recruits, who are likely to be assigned to of al-Jaradi, Zubaid and al-Tahita, districts, south of Hodeidah.
