The battles intensified north of Hajjah, and the attacks in Marib and Saada were thwarted
English - Tuesday 22 February 2022 الساعة 07:05 pm
Hajjah, NewsYemen, special monitoring:
The fronts in the northern Hajjah governorate witnessed the fiercest confrontations between government forces backed by the fighters of the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia on the one hand, and the Houthi terrorist militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, on the other hand, which led to the failure of the Houthis' storming of Hayran District.
Military sources explained that the battles on the fronts north of Hajjah entered their nineteenth day in a row, in which the two sides exchanged control over several sites in Haradh and Abs, but the most important development during the past few hours was represented by the militias sending an armored brigade with the aim of storming the rest of the sites controlled by the forces of Fifth Military District.
The sources stated that the recent operations of the Arab coalition led to the destruction of Houthi tunnels in Haradh, as well as the destruction of 16 Houthi armored vehicles, leaving more than 30 Houthi deaths, and wounding others, as a result of 22 coalition raids, noting that among the dead was the one responsible for launching marches and ballistic missiles in Hajjah, the Houthi leader "Abu Ammar Jahaf", who received his training in Iran, as well as the commander of the armored battalions in the fourth military region of the Houthis called Colonel Sadiq Hassan Ali Abu Qena, and the leader Abu Aziz Al-Bakhiti.
The militias responded by bombing the Al-Baddah market in the Abs district with missiles and heavy artillery, killing 13 civilians and wounding many market-goers.
On the Saada fronts, the government forces thwarted an attempt to bypass Houthi elements towards the liberated positions in the Al-Razamat front in the Safra district, north of Saada, and the government forces, with the support of the coalition fighters, thwarted an infiltration attempt by Houthi elements towards the forces’ positions in the Ramli axis, south of Marib.
In Al-Bayda, adjacent to Marib, a missile launcher and a strategic weapons store for the Houthis were destroyed by coalition fighters in response to the bombing of Najran by a drone yesterday, according to the Arab coalition, stressing that it carried out an operation in response to the threat and destroyed military targets in the Yemeni province of Al-Bayda. To protect civilians from hostilities, we will continue to carry out massive air strikes."
In Taiz, coalition fighters destroyed Houthi combat vehicles in the Al-Ta’iziyah district, north of the governorate, for the first time in which raids were launched on the city’s vicinity in three years. The coalition fighters also destroyed Houthi reinforcements in the Khub Wal Sha’af district, which were on their way to the fronts of the northern axis of Al-Jawf governorate, which led to the death of 13 Houthi.
On the other hand, Sanaa witnessed yesterday, the transfer of missiles and booby-trapped drones towards the Serwah district in the Marib governorate, via the road linking Sana’a and Marib through the Khawlan district.
In Al-Hodeidah, a child was killed and another injured as a result of the Houthi militia shelling the village of Haija Quraish, in the newly liberated high mountain of Dhu Bass, north of the city center of Hays.
