Houthi rebels claim large-scale missile and drone strike near Yemen's Mokha

DOHA, August 9. /TASS/. Houthi rebels from Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement said they had carried out a large-scale strike with ballistic missiles and UAVs on troop concentrations and weapons depots near the southwestern Yemeni city of Mokha, the movement’s military spokesman Yahya Saree said.

"The Yemeni armed forces [the Houthis] <...> carried out a large-scale military operation targeting concentrations of Saudi enemy forces and their weapons depots in the Mokha area," Saree said in a statement posted on his Telegram channel. According to him, the attack involved "a large number of ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles."

Saree stated that the strike destroyed a large amount of military equipment and killed or injured dozens of people, including Saudi servicemen. He said the operation was a response to the "continued mobilization" of enemy forces and attacks on Yemen’s western coast and in Taiz Governorate.

Saudi television channel Al Arabiya reported that the Houthis had carried out more than 15 drone attacks on Mokha Port. Civilian facilities in the harbor were targeted, it said, adding that Yemeni army air defenses had shot down several Houthi UAVs.