Fierce night shelling and a bomb targeting the house of a senior surgeon, and an explosive device, leave two people dead
English - Tuesday 17 March 2020 الساعة 02:55 pm
Al-Dhale‘, Newsyemen, private :
Midnight exchanges of fire intensified in the Sabira al-Jub front, hours after clashes erupted Monday evening and clashes in al-Jub axis and Battar between southern forces and Houthi militias. The two parties use all types of medium and heavy weapons, and the sounds of clashes are widely heard, according to the Newsyemen field reporter.
During the last night, clashes took place over an hour and a half and southern forces in the Murais front, north of Dhale’, were able to counter an attack by militias on their sites. Military reinforcements of the Houthi militia were targeted at the Yays front, and Najd al-Qurain was monitored after Houthi militias brought them from the Damt district and it was collected over the past days to push it to the front line.
In a context related to the course of the war, front-line accounts and mobilizations, field sources said that the Houthi leader appointed as director of security for the Hasha Directorate visited the Shamiriya district of the Directorate and one of the advanced contact lines and clashes extending north from the Hasha side from time to time, and was accompanied by armed groups.
The Houthi general supervisor of the Al-Dhale’ front is calling for more mobilization to the burning fronts, amid heavy losses and the accumulated failure of the militias to achieve any progress or recover sites lost.
The movements coincided with new military reinforcements that arrived and included a BMP vehicle and fighters on board civilian carriers.
On Monday evening, an explosive device exploded in the city of Qataba, in Wadi Al-Obhor, and the explosion killed: Najran Muhammad al-Tayyib and Ahmad Yahya Abu Talib, both of them seventeen.
According to eyewitness accounts, the explosion was caused by an explosive device when a motorbike was passing by.
On the one hand, unknown persons targeted the home of Dr. Mohsen Al-Haj Al-Subhi, the chief surgeon at Al-Nasr Hospital, with a bomb on Monday evening, in the airport lane in the city of Al-Dhale’.
A local source who spoke with Newsyemen considered that the operation falls within the targeting of the medical and health personnel that Al-Dhale’ needs in these critical circumstances.
