The latest attacks come just a day after Houthi forces targeted al-Makha (Mocha) and its port, killing seven people.
Published On ۱۱ Aug ۲۰۲۶
The armed forces of Yemen’s internationally recognised government have accused the Houthis of launching another round of ballistic missile attacks on the Red Sea port city of al-Makha and on residential areas in the central city of Marib.
Yemeni forces did not state whether the attacks on Monday caused any casualties.
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The attacks came a day after Houthi missiles killed at least seven people and wounded ۳۰ others in al-Makha, which is also known as Mocha. The strikes caused extensive damage at the city’s port area.
Elsewhere in Yemen on Monday, a Houthi drone strike killed two Yemeni government soldiers and wounded seven others in the south-central province of Shabwa, according to local media reports.
Yemeni forces, in a series of posts on X, said they targeted Houthi rebels and their sites in eastern al-Jawf province, northwestern Saada province and the al-Tibas area of central Marib province.
The tit-for-tat attacks are the deadliest in years in Yemen’s civil war and mark a major escalation in the conflict, which has been reignited by the war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on February ۲۸.
The Iran-backed Houthis captured Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in September ۲۰۱۴, with a Saudi-led coalition intervening in March ۲۰۱۵ on the side of the government.
The conflict, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, deteriorated into a deadlock, and the warring parties reached a truce in April ۲۰۲۲ that ended major fighting across the country.
But the violence reignited on July ۱۳ with a Saudi air strike on the runway of Sanaa airport, preventing the landing of an Iranian flight carrying a high-ranking Houthi delegation.
Following the strike, the Houthis attacked the Abha airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia and announced a blockade on Saudi shipping in the Red Sea. They have also attacked Saudi vessels as well as oil facilities in the kingdom, adding further disruption to the global economy.
The Saudi-led coalition in turn has struck Houthi-controlled Hodeidah and Kamaran, Yemen’s largest island in the Red Sea. It has also reinforced Yemeni troops along the front lines in Yemen to launch a ground offensive on Houthis.
Meanwhile, the United Nations has called for restraint.
“Yemen today faces a greater risk of renewed large-scale conflict than at any point since the UN-brokered truce of April ۲۰۲۲,” UN envoy Hans Grundberg warned on Friday.
The escalation, he said, risks “jeopardising the gains of the ۲۰۲۲ truce … while also drawing the country into a broader regional confrontation, with devastating consequences for its people”.
