France’s losses in the west coast

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The Yemeni army held several French officers and soldiers in the western coast front, according to a military official.

The French war boat carrying the officers and soldiers, supported theUS- Saudi-led coalition to attack the Red Sea port city of Hodiedah, was seized by the Yemeni army into Yemen’s waters.

Hodeidah is a strategic port city which should be supporting more than 20 million Yemenis. It should be the source of at least 70 percent of all imports to Yemen,” Suze van Meegen, a protection and advocacy adviser with the Norwegian Refugee Council, told AFP. The US-Saudi-led coalition has been eager to retake from Yemeni joint forces control, according to Yemeni officials.. But the former UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheik, warned against attacking the port city over potential catastrophic consequences to Yemen last year. Martin Griffiths, the new special envoy to Yemen, echoed the same concern over attacking Hudaydah at the UN Security Council this week.