In the wake of the Saudi seige on the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, Houthi forces have been on the advance. On Sunday, Houthi forces ramped up their operations in southern Saudi Arabia itself. Meanwhile, they dealt serious damage to Saudi positions near the Alib Cross, as well as an assault on the strategic Al-Dukhan Mountain, where they won a major conflict earlier in the week.
Al Masdar reports:
The Houthi forces intensified their field operations in southern Saudi Arabia this past weekend, targeting the Saudi Army’s positions in several areas near the Yemeni border.
Beginning with the Jizan region, the Houthi forces were able to inflict heavy damage on the Saudi military’s positions near the Alib Crossing.
The Houthi forces would then launch a powerful attack on the strategic Al-Dukhan Mountain, which is where they managed to score a big advance earlier in the week.
Meanwhile, in the Najran province, the Houthi forces struck the Saudi Army’s defenses in the Sudis and Al-Shabakah areas; this resulted in a short battle on Sunday.
The Houthi forces intensified their field operations in southern Saudi Arabia after the Arab Coalition resumed their powerful assault on the port-city of Hodeidah.
The Hodeidah Port is the humanitarian lifeline for the Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen if lost, it would leave millions under a land, air, and sea siege.
While the Saudis have been supporting Jihadists in Syria with the aim of destabilizing the Syrian government and it’s control over its own territory, which is become a sort of proxy war for various regional interests, including the USA, Israel, Turkey, and Iran, Yemen itself is serving a similar cause on the Arabian peninsula. Iran and Saudi Arabia are duking it out in a sort of proxy war in Yemen, which is witnessing quite a bit of back and forth between the two countries, while one of the parties, the Saudis, boasts billions of dollars worth of American military hardware and even American military support, the other is managing to inflict a considerable degree of damage, despite a much smaller military budget. The Saudi blockades and strikes on civilian areas, schools, hospitals, etc., however, have been primary causes and on going means of what is rapidly deteriorating into the largest humanitarian crisis of the century, with cholera outbreaks and starvation affecting tens of millions of Yemenis.
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