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The Yemeni Army announced on Wednesday that its forces carried out 468 targeting operations against Houthi elements and equipment in 3 fronts in the country, indicating the "killing and wounding of hundreds" of the group's members.
This was stated in a post by Yemeni forces spokesman Colonel Major General Majed Abdullah Al-Nazal, on the American company "X" platform.
Al-Nazal said: "Our armed forces carried out 468 targeting operations against the elements and equipment of the terrorist Houthi militia in the Eastern, Al-Bayda (central) and Al-Mansoura fronts in Al-Wazi'a (southwest)".
He pointed out that these operations "resulted in the killing and wounding of hundreds of militia members and the destruction of their military equipment and vehicles", without further details.
Al-Nazal accused the group's members of continuing to "target civilians and civilian objects, including educational institutions, in a desperate attempt to break the will of the Yemeni people to restore the state and reject its extremist and destructive project".
He pointed out that "these attacks constitute a serious violation of the provisions of international humanitarian law and the principles of civilian protection".
No immediate comment was issued by the Houthi group in this regard.
This comes at a time when several fronts in Yemen are witnessing escalation, with renewed clashes between government forces and the Houthis in a number of governorates, including Taiz, Lahj near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait (southwest), Marib (east), Al-Jawf (north), and Al-Bayda (central).
These developments are part of a military escalation that began in early July last year, the largest since the relative calm that followed the April 2022 truce.
Yemen has been witnessing a war since the Houthis, accused of receiving Iranian support, took control of the capital Sanaa and several governorates in September 2014, before the intervention of a Saudi-led Arab coalition in March 2015 in support of the Yemeni government.
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