On Eid al-Fitr ... Houthi escalation in Hodeidah and renewed violations

English - Friday 14 May 2021 الساعة 12:13 pm
Hodeidah, NewsYemen:

Coinciding with the first day of the blessed Eid al-Fitr, the Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, on Thursday, opened fire with its machine guns on civilian objects in the center of the city of Hays, south of Hodeidah.

Local sources stated that the Houthi militia had barbarically targeted residential neighborhoods and citizens' homes with various weapons, leaving a state of fear and panic among the people.

In the context, the joint forces extinguished, on Thursday, sources of fire for the terrorist Houthi militia, targeting the homes of citizens in the Al-Jah area of the Beit Al-Faqih District, south of Hodeidah, on the first day of the blessed Eid Al-Fitr.

The source confirmed that the joint forces directed focused strikes on the dens and barracks of the Houthi militia, causing material and human losses. In the al-Durayhimi sector, the joint forces dealt with Houthi movements that tried to penetrate the front lines, but to no avail, and were able to cause the Houthis to be killed and wounded, as a result of new violations of the militias.

And local sources reported that the Houthi militia bombed residential neighborhoods in the city of Al-Hudaydah, Al-Durayhimi District, and Al-Jah area of the Beit Al-Faqih District. According to the sources, the terrorist militia used heavy weapons, including mortars and BMP shells, as well as medium weapons of various calibers.