Big losses amid the coalition in Hodeidah

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The Yemeni army forces ,Monday, imposed a blockade on hundreds of paid fighters ,loyal to the US-Saudi-led coalition in al-Durihemi district of Hodeidah province in the western coast front, field military sources said .

Nearly 300 paid fighters, mostly from the southern areas, are trapped in al-Durihemi area, the military sources said.

Other sources confirmed that the paid fighters launched an appeal for lifting the siege on them, without any response from the coalition’s command in Aden.

Hundreds of the besieged paid fighters are belonging to the so-called al-Mehdhar battalion of the so-called al-Amaliqa Brigade.

Yesterday, 30 paid fighters of the same brigade were killed in an offensive by Yemeni army forces.

The US-Saudi-led coalition  launched an offensive on Hodeidah 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.

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