Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, has launched more attacks targeting Saudi-backed forces in the Yemeni Red Sea port city of Mocha and in Yemen’s eastern Marib province as the war in the country continues to escalate.
Citing a military source, Yemen’s SABA news agency reported that the Ansar Allah-led Yemeni Armed Forces targeted “Saudi enemy military reinforcements in the Mocha area and Marib governorate with a number of ballistic missiles and drones.”
The report added that the “strikes were precise and direct, resulting in a number of killed and wounded, and the destruction of several Saudi enemy weapons depots and storage facilities.”
Al Jazeera reported that four people were killed and several others were wounded by the Ansar Allah attacks on Mocha. The local government in the part of Marib province that’s not under Ansar Allah control said that the attacks on Marib damaged homes, vehicles, and other civilian property and wounded four people.
Also on Sunday, the Taiz Military Axis, part of the Saudi-backed Yemeni government’s military forces, said that it launched attacks against Ansar Allah in the southwestern Taiz province that it said killed and wounded multiple fighters. The Saudi- and Western-backed government is based in Aden, though its leaders are based in Riyadh.
SABA also reported Saudi shelling in northern Yemen, with a source telling the outlet that Saudi forces targeted populated villages in the Razeh district of the northern Saada province.
The war in Yemen has been reignited following Saudi airstrikes targeting the Sanaa international airport to prevent a flight from Iran from landing. In response, Ansar Allah announced a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, a policy it calls a “blockade for a blockade,” and has launched multiple attacks on Saudi shipping. Ansar Allah has also been targeting oil infrastructure inside Saudi Arabia.
