Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, reported on Sunday that Saudi Arabia launched dozens more airstrikes in Yemen as Ansar Allah continues to advance on the ground against Saudi-backed forces.
Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, spokesman for the Ansar Allah-led Yemeni Armed Forces, said the Saudis launched 58 airstrikes over a 24-hour period using US-made F-15 fighter jets that took off from an air base in Khamis Mushait, southwest Saudi Arabia. Saree said that airstrikes hit the Yemeni provinces of Taiz, Lahj, al-Jawf, Hajjah, al-Bayda, and Saada.
In a separate statement, Saree said that Yemeni forces targeted what he called “weapons depots and command and control centers” at a military base in the Sharurah area of southern Saudi Arabia.
“We assure the criminal Saudi enemy that the continuation of its aggression against our people will be met with even more severe and massive operations deep within its territory, and the consequences for it will be dire, by the permission and power of Allah,” Saree said, according to Yemen’s SABA news agency.
Yemeni media also claimed that five Saudi-backed commanders were killed during fighting in Kahboub, southwest Yemen, near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Last week, Ansar Allah gained significant ground in a rapid offensive, capturing the Red Sea port city of Mocha, and later Mayyun, an island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, giving them full control of the strategic waterway.
According to SouthFront, which tracks the situation on the ground in Yemen, Ansar Allah made more territorial gains in the Taiz province on Sunday. According to the UN’s migration agency, the ground fighting has displaced more than 82,000 people in southwestern Yemen.
Ansar Allah launched the ground offensive on September 3, following weeks of escalations in the wake of Saudi Arabia bombing the Sanaa International Airport on July 13, which reignited the war.
