Yemeni army forces go on responding to the coalition in the West Coast

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Yemeni army forces have kept responding to the US-Saudi-led coalition against its constant airstrikes on their homeland.

The missile force of the Yemeni army forces fired , today, a short-range ballistic missile on the coalition gatherings in the West Coast, hitting its target accuaretly.

It also launched, last Sunday, a short-range ballistic missile on the gatherings of the coalition in ​​Juraybat area of Al-Baidah province.

Notably, the Yemeni army’s drones , today, waged an air attack on gatherings of the coalition in the western coast front.

On July 22nd, the Air Force carried out an air strike on a camp for the coalition in the West Coast, targeting the command and control rooms of the UAE troopers. The military source confirmed that the operation was executed after careful monitoring of the camp that was destroyed.

They ,also, destroyed 48 military vehicles belonging to the coalition in different fronts during July 2018.

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has unilaterally suspended its retaliatory attacks in the Red Sea, from where Saudi-led warships have been targeting the war-torn state, especially its strategic port city of Hudaydah.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the Houthi-run Supreme Revolutionary Committee (SRC) said the two-week suspension was meant to support efforts aimed at resolving the Yemeni conflict.

The announcement comes less than a week after Saudi Arabia temporarily suspended all oil shipments through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the southern entrance to the Red Sea.

The halt to retaliatory attacks in the Red Sea is aimed at “preserving the Yemeni bloods and in response to the regional and international moves and efforts aiming to bring peace,” he noted.

On the other hand, a woman was killed and two children were wounded on Tuesday night by a coalition airstrike on Sa’ada province.

Four civilians were killed and two others were injured Tuesday in a coalition raid tthat argeted the agricultural extension office, in Durayhimi district of Hodeidah province.

The US-Saudi-led coalition  launched an offensive on Hudaydah on 12 June in the largest battle of the war that the United Nations fears risks triggering a famine in Yemen where an estimated 8.4 million people are on the verge of starvation. Recently, It has been paused for peace talks, but no deal has been struck leaving Yemenis pessimistic over a viable political process.

Abdulmalik al-Houthi, the leader of the Houthi(Ansarallah)  movement, which is the main force that faces the coallition, said on a TV speech ,” The decision of invading the Yemeni ,western coast, has been taken and adopted by the United States of America,noting that the Saudis are trying to abolish Yemen’s freedom,” stressing that it was the people of Yemen’s right to defend their country.

The Bab el-Mandab Strait, which is the southern entrance to the Red Sea, is one of the world’s key shipping lanes for crude oil and allows crude exports into the European market.