The Yemeni armed forces in the internationally recognized government announced that they had regained sites "infiltrated" by Ansar Allah Houthi fighters west of Taiz, noting their "advancement towards new areas."
This came according to what was published by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), affiliated with the internationally recognized government, and the agency quoted a military source as saying, “The armed forces regained positions overlooking the Jardad area in the Al-Shamaytain District, and advanced towards the Gail Bani Omar area, as part of ongoing operations aimed at expelling the Houthi militias from the governorate.”
Yemeni forces launched raids targeting Houthi "gatherings", which led to "the destruction of a number of military vehicles and the explosion of a stock of medium weapons ammunition, in addition to the killing of at least ten militants," according to the agency.
This comes as the Yemeni government, supported by Riyadh, pledged to strengthen its forces on the Red Sea coast, amid the intensification of the conflict and the exchange of attacks with the Houthis.
In a related context, Houthi media reported on Sunday that Saudi Arabia launched strikes on Saada Governorate, their main stronghold in northern Yemen.
The Houthi-run Al-Masirah Channel said that two raids targeted Saada Governorate, while artillery shelling targeted the Munabbih border district in the same governorate.
The Houthis announced, on Sunday, that they had attacked, with drones and missiles, a military base in Najran, southern Saudi Arabia, in what they described as a "qualitative military operation."
The Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Saree, wrote on the X platform that the attack on the base in the Saudi town of Sharurah targeted “weapons stores and command and control rooms that manage the aggression against our country and our people.”
The spokesman indicated the use of “a large batch of ballistic missiles and drones,” adding that “the hit was accurate and direct,” as he put it, but without specifying when the attack occurred.
On Sunday, the Saudi Civil Defense warned of possible attacks in two border areas with Yemen in the south of the Kingdom, but the warnings, which were directed to the city of Abha and the area around Khamis Mushait, were quickly lifted.
The Saudi Civil Defense stated, in a statement on Saturday, that a projectile fired by the Houthis injured two people in the Jazan region and damaged several buildings, including a mosque, but Riyadh has not yet commented on the allegations of the recent Houthi attack.
The Yemeni government announced the implementation of air strikes against Houthi sites in various regions.
She said in a statement, on Saturday, that "the Armed Forces aircraft targeted with three air strikes the sites and barracks of the terrorist Houthi group, in the Black Hill and Jabal al-Moneim on the Dhabab Front."
It added that its forces "destroyed military equipment and eliminated Iranian-backed Houthi fighters, in strikes on the coastal city of Mokha, which the rebels took control of this week."
The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights, affiliated with the internationally recognized government, reported the killing of 150 civilians and the injury of more than 200 others, in addition to the displacement of about 85,000 people since September 3 as a result of what it described as “widespread violations” by the Houthis.
The Ansar Allah Houthi group completed its control of the western coast of Yemen on the Red Sea last Friday. It also took control of the four islands in the Bab al-Mandab region, a vital maritime corridor whose importance has increased for Saudi Arabia as a corridor for exporting its oil, since Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz after the outbreak of war between it and Washington.
"Displacement crisis"
While Yemen is on the verge of a new civil war, United Nations estimates indicate that more than 80,000 Yemenis have been displaced since the beginning of this September.
The Yemenis, who number more than 40 million people, fear sliding again into the civil war that has killed about 150,000 and left many of their people on the brink of starvation in one of the worst humanitarian disasters the world has ever known.
The International Organization for Migration said on Sunday that more than 82,000 people in Yemen have been displaced since the beginning of this September.
Ahmed Al-Masawi, director of Al-Salam camp in the city of Aden in the south of the country, said, “The displaced are in a very bad condition, and they left their homes in a hurry without taking anything with them,” appealing to international organizations to provide relief.
The International Organization for Migration, affiliated with the United Nations, warned of "a displacement crisis that is worsening at a rapid pace in Yemen and developing hour after hour."
On Saturday, the Djibouti authorities announced that about 1,400 people had fled from Yemen to Djibouti.
A post by Djibouti’s Minister of Economy, Elias Moussa Doualeh, on the X platform said: “1,400 refugees from Yemen arrived in Djibouti during the past 24 hours.”
Safia Ibrahim, humanitarian response coordinator at the International Organization for Migration, said that among the arrivals were “women and children.”
