A large-scale military operation against Houthi targets in seven Yemeni governorates
English - Monday 31 January 2022 الساعة 05:23 pmToday, the Arab coalition led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates carried out a large-scale military operation in the areas of the Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, that affected "sites, military targets, marching workshops, and ballistic missile launchers", in response to the Houthi attack towards Abu Dhabi in UAE.
Local sources in separate areas stated that the coalition fighters launched intensive raids on Sanaa, and the governorates of "Al-Jawf, Amran, Saada, Taiz, Al-Bayda, and Marib," noting that the raids were violent and with unprecedented explosions, which left the militia leaders in panic and terror which was seen fleeing from Sanaa towards the countryside and suburbs.
The sources stated that the raids were accurate and focused, and led to the destruction of weapons depots, a missile launcher, workshops for the installation of marches, combat mechanisms and fortifications of the Houthis, as a ballistic missile launcher was destroyed in Al-Jawf minutes after it was used in the attack on the Emirates at dawn today, while Houthi sites were targeted in Alyatma and Almahashma with five raids.
In Sana’a, the coalition raids targeted the TV camp in the Al-Thawra District, the Al-Hasaba area and the maintenance camp in the Al-Nahda area, the headquarters of the formerly armored First Division, and the Al-Dailami base.
The raids also targeted a missile store and launch pad in the "Wadi Beit al-Nakhif" in the Bani Hashish district, one of the most important militia strongholds in northern Sana'a.
In Saada, coalition fighters destroyed a Houthi weapons depot in Kitaf district, and flattened a Houthi site containing a weapons depot in the "Shwaba" area of the "Dhibin" district of Amran governorate, north of Sana'a, and also destroyed a site containing ballistic missiles in the Radaa district in Al-Bayda, which was recently transferred from Sana'a. .
The warplanes of the coalition launched intensive raids on Houthi sites and mechanisms in the districts of "Majzar, Raghwan, Madghal, Al-Juba, Harib and Sirwah" in the Ma'rib governorate.
In Taiz, the coalition fighters bombed with more than 9 raids sites and gatherings of Houthi combat mechanisms in the Al-Sarahem area in the Jabal Habashi district, and the “Makaer and Al-Moneim” areas on the Al-Rabee and Al-Ramada fronts on the road linking Taiz and Al-Hodeidah, and another on the “Tabisha’a” area in the Saber Al-Mawadim district, south east of the city of Taiz, which led to the destruction of six combat vehicles, killing and wounding more than 11 Houthis, including a prominent field commander nicknamed "Abu Diab".