Yemeni army forces fire a ballastic missile on their enemy in the west coast front
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The missile force of the Yemeni army forces launched a short-range ballistic missile on Thursday on the US backed -Saudi led coalition forces and paid fighters’ gatherings in the west coast.
Units of them , in addition, launched an offensive on the positions of the coalition paid fighters in the east of Jabalyah district, freeing several areas, as a result dozens of the paid fighters were killed and injured .
At least 20 of the coalition paid fighters were killed and others injured when explosive devices went off in the west of Durihami district in the western coast.
Furthermore, four military vehicles were destroyed in the outskirts of Durihami district, while another mechanism carrying machine gun was destroyed in Hays district, killing all their crew members.
Earlier in the month, It launched a short-range ballistic missile on the coalition gatherings, in the same front.
Yesterday, it also targeted Saudi Duty Camp in Najran with a ballistic missile, Bader 1.
Spokesman of the Yemeni army Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman said that the heavy military casualties of the coalition in the west coast front and other fronts came as a result of the Yemeni army forces’ tactical military operation.
In a statement Luqman said that the coalition command miserably tried to drag more paid fighters and get rid of them in the fronts. He stressed that the paid fighters will face the fate of their predecessors, which was announced through the media about the latest military operations in Durayhimi and the west coast .
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.
The United Nations said more than 350,000 people have been displaced from the strategic Red Sea port town of Hudaydah in western Yemen since June.Deputy spokesman for the Secretary-General, Farhan Haq, said during a press conference on Monday that violent clashes have erupted in the city over the past few days, especially in the Ad Durayhimi district.He added that emergency humanitarian assistance has already been provided to more than 90 per cent of those displaced.