Liaison officers' operations in Al-Hodeidah city: 51 Houthi violations in a day
English - Wednesday 04 March 2020 الساعة 09:12 am
Hodeidah / Mocha, Newsyemen
Field military sources warned of the escalation of the Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, and the escalation of violations in the Hodeidah Governorate and its center.
It noted that the militias carried out dozens of violations in the past 24 hours, including 51 in the city of Hodeidah only.
Militias also committed violations in the Al-Jabaliya, Al-Durahimi , and Hays regions.
According to a source in the Liaison Officers Operations Room in Al Hodeidah, the militias committed 51 violations in Al Hodeidah city, where they launched artillery shelling in the areas east of Al Hodeidah city with 16 120 mortar shells targeting citizens' homes.
The source added, that the militias bombed the farms and homes of citizens in the mountainous area south of the city of Al-Tuhita, with 7 artillery shells and 6 similar shells on villages in the Al-Durahimi Directorate.
In the context, a military source said: The militias shelled on Tuesday afternoon with a number of 120 and 82-caliber mortar shells and landed near the inhabited residential neighborhoods in the city, noting that the Houthi shelling came in conjunction with the continued flight of airspace in the sky of the center of Hays.
The militias opened fire with machine guns in separate neighborhoods in the city center, and the Salah El-Din Mosque was damaged by gunfire during the dawn prayer.
