A year after the "Agreement of Shame" ... Houthi militia ignites the Hodeidah and Coast fronts

English - Saturday 14 December 2019 الساعة 02:37 pm
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Once again, residential neighborhoods in the city of Hay south of Al-Hodeidah Governorate, on Friday 13 December 2019, were shelled and targeted with artillery, heavy weapons, medium weapons and snipers.


Local sources reported that militias shelled citizens' homes with heavy 120-mm mortar shells and 82-mm mortar shells violently.


The militia also opened heavy fire on other areas in the north of the district using heavy weapons type 23 caliber, and fired RPGs towards the houses, and targeted them with medium machine guns of 14.5 caliber and a pica rate and light weapons and snipers intensively and violently, according to field military sources in Hays.


Field military sources said in Al-Jabaliya in the district of Al-Tahita, that the militias fired their weapons towards the positions of the joint forces, using medium-caliber 14.5 and 12.7-caliber weapons.


Militias targeted other locations of the joint forces on the northern outskirts of Al-Jabalia with sniper weapons and a pica weapon and light machine guns.
Video clips of the joint forces showed that the Houthi militia dug tunnels and trenches and created new sites in the district of Al-Tahita. Militias also sends armed groups into the new sites.


In the southern outskirts of the city of Al-Hodeidah, the Houthi militia renewed the artillery shelling of the Al-Durahimi district, on Friday, violently targeting the joint forces' sites east of the district.


Field military sources reported that militias bombed the joint forces' positions east of Al-Durahimi with 120-caliber mortars, 82-caliber shells, and Hauser artillery shells, coinciding with targeting of medium-caliber 14.5 and 12.7-caliber weapons, and with small arms from morning hours until evening.


The militia snipers had targeted, on Friday, by sniper and machine gun fire control point in City Max in Hodeidah city and wounded a soldier working to supply the liaison officers after the artillery shelling and intense targeting with various weapons on the positions of the joint forces in kilo 16 east of the city of Hodeidah.