Violent battles are renewed in Taiz amid intense air strikes and Houthi forces blow up the main road linking Taiz and Aden.
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Yemen has been witnessing ongoing battles for years, and Taiz has been under siege by the Houthis since 2016.
Field sources told Al-Ain News that successive batches of Houthi forces launched a series of attacks on the fronts of the city of Taiz and its western, eastern and southern countryside, coinciding with intense air strikes on the group's positions.
Since the night hours, the Houthi attacks have targeted the eastern, northern and western fronts of the city of Taiz, and have extended to the fronts of Al-Kadha, Bani Bakari and even Al-Wazi’iyah in the west and Sam’a, Haifan and Al-Athawar in the south, according to the sources.
In response to the attack, government forces warplanes launched a series of raids on Houthi positions, including 6 raids targeting the movement’s positions in Al-Akbush, Tabah Central, the mountain overlooking Al-Khazja, and Jabal Qaml in the Haifan District, south of the governorate.
According to information, Houthi forces blew up the main road linking the cities of Taiz and Aden, and blew up one of the ferries in the Al-Maqatara liquidity below Haijat Al-Abd, in a new attempt to cut off the vital Taiz-Aden road, and forced travelers to take the alternative “Karba” road.
The Haijat al-Abd road represents one of the most prominent movement and supply lines between Taiz, Lahj, and Aden, and is used to transport travelers, food supplies, and goods to large areas in Taiz, which has been under Houthi siege since 2016.
Yemen has been witnessing violent battles since the beginning of last September, following a large-scale, multi-track attack launched by the Houthis on the areas of the West Coast and Bab al-Mandab, which led to thousands of deaths and injuries.

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