Yemeni forces while responding to the US-Saudi-led coalition campaign on Yemen
Yemeni army forces take a revenge from the coalition on the West Coast
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The Yemeni army forces carried out Wednesday night two offensives on the US -backed Saudi-led coalition’s sites on the West Coast Front.
A military source told YemenExtra that one of them was in the outskirts of Al-Jabaliah on the West Coast, confirming the death and wounding of a number of thepaid fighters in the operation.
While the other one targeted their sites in the Al-Jah area on the West Coast, leaving dead and wounded amid their ranks and destroying a 14.5-caliber machine gun.
For its part , the coalition warplanes launched two raids in an attempt to support their paid fighters in the Al-Jah area.
The 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.
