12 coalition operations in Hajjah and Al-Jawf and the failure of control over a military sector in Abs
English - Tuesday 08 March 2022 الساعة 05:21 pm
Hajjah, NewsYemen, exclusive:
Today, the Arab coalition led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced that it had carried out 12 targeting operations against the Houthi militias in Al-Jawf and Hajjah, during the past 24 hours, indicating the destruction of (7) military vehicles and human losses among the militias.
The fronts north and east of Haradh district witnessed fierce battles between the government forces and the resistance on the one hand, and the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia, on the other, during the past few hours, leaving dead and wounded and destroying military vehicles on both sides.
Military sources in the government's fifth region stated that violent battles took place in the areas east and north of the Haradh border district with Saudi Arabia, after the Houthis tried to advance towards the positions of government forces stationed in those areas, noting that the coalition fighters intervened again and prevented the militias' goals from being achieved.
The sources confirmed that the government forces continued to control a geographical area estimated at 60 km in the north of Hajjah, distributed over the districts of Hiran, Haradh and Abs, and that during the past 24 hours, the coalition fighters prevented the militias from advancing towards strategic locations of government forces, especially in the Bani Hassan area in the Abs district.
The sources pointed out that the battles thwarted the militia's plans to control the military sector of the Saudi-backed government forces in No. 105 in the Abs district, and destroyed heavy military vehicles of the Houthis used in the attack, including a tank, Katyusha rocket launchers, three crews and an armored vehicle.
It confirmed the killing and wounding of approximately 83 Houthis during the battles and raids of the past two days on the fronts north of Hajjah, including prominent field leaders, including "Hashem al-Mansour", commander of the western sector of Haradh, and leader Abdul Karim Abdullah, supervisor of the Muftah District in Hajjah, and leader Hassan Ahmed, nicknamed "Abu". Ali”, and the leader Yasser Muhammad al-Dailami, and his relative Muhammad Saif al-Dailami.
The fronts south of Marib witnessed hit-and-run battles and an exchange of heavy shelling between the two sides, which led to deaths and injuries on both sides, according to field sources, confirming the death of the Houthi leader, "Abu Saleh al-Khudri" and 17 of his members, in coalition raids and shelling of forces and tribes on Houthi sites in the hallway in the Faliha desert, east of the district of Juba.
Today, local residents in Al-Hazm city, the capital of Al-Jawf, monitored Houthi crowds that had gathered during the past few days from the districts of Al-Ghail and Al-Maton, to the agricultural bank branch in the city, in preparation for pushing them towards the "flag" front on the outskirts of Marib Governorate via the desert road, as part of Preparing for a new military operation towards the city of Marib.
Meanwhile, a foreign national of al-Qaeda was killed, and seven others, two of them Africans, were wounded in a bombing by government forces and Saudi artillery on a Houthi training site in the "Al-Raqqo" area near the Munabbih Central Market, north of Saada, according to local sources, confirming that the site was continuously targeted by Government forces and coalition fighters because of the danger it poses on the Saudi border
The sources stated that the site includes foreign mercenaries and members of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, who were brought in by the militias, to participate in combat operations against the government and Saudi forces on the borders, which makes it vulnerable to attacks by government and Saudi forces.
