A large-scale Houthi attack was crushed and dozens were killed in Hodeidah

English - Monday 09 December 2019 الساعة 08:32 am
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On Sunday night, Monday, the joint forces in the West Coast inflicted on Houthi militias a new defeat and broke a massive offensive attempt to advance in Al-Tahita.

Field military sources said that the joint forces responded to an attack by militias on the south of Al-Tahita city, using various types of heavy and medium weapons and artillery.

The sources confirmed that the joint forces incurred the militias heavy losses in equipment and lives, as dozens of militia militants were killed and others were injured, while the rest of them escaped.

In conjunction with the attack, the militias launched violent artillery and heavy targeting of heavy and medium weapons in northern areas of the city.

Field sources reported that militias shelled areas north of the city of Al-Tahita with heavy mortar shells 120 caliber and 82 artillery violently, and targeted the city with heavy weapons of type 23 MT, with medium weapons 14.5 and 12.7 caliber weapons and with sniper and light machine guns intensively and continuously Sunday night

On Sunday, the militias renewed the continuous military escalation of shelling and targeting against the Hayes district and residential neighborhoods, the locations of the joint forces there and other locations in the Al-Jah district of the Beit al-Faqih district and the locations of the forces in the Jabaliya district of Tahita.