Houthi militia resumes shelling in Al Hodeidah city, and a displaced person is killed

English - Thursday 19 March 2020 الساعة 07:48 am
Al-Hodeidah / Mocha, Newsyemen, private:

A displaced citizen was martyred due to a gunshot wound by the Houthi militia while he was inside his house in the city of Hays in Hodeidah.

In a new escalation in the city of Hodeidah, the Iranian arm militias, on Wednesday evening, bombed the Thabit Brothers industrial and commercial park east of the city of Hodeidah with three artillery shells.


The park and its facilities and the headquarters of the government team were subjected to intermittent rocket and artillery strikes throughout the past year, and extensive material damage and losses to the production lines as well as worker victims.


In the city of Hays, a Newsyemen reporter said that Haj Yahya Hassan Saeed Jumai, 55, was wounded by a bullet shot, "Beka", from the militia's control centers located in the village of Beit Bish, north of the city.

He explained that the bullet hit Yahya Jama'i in the left area of the chest and settled in the heart while he was inside the room of his house, which is located in Al-Barha neighborhood.

He recalled that he had been treated to Hayes Hospital, but that he had died instantly, as a result of the injury.


It is mentioned that the martyr was displaced from the village of Al-Haet, north of Hays, and the militia deserted him and several residents, and he was displaced to the center of Hays.

Meanwhile, Al-Houthi militia targeted, on Wednesday, populated villages and citizens' homes, more than 20 mortar shells, east of the city of Al-Duraimi, south of Hodeidah.

Violent confrontations took place in the Hays front, south of Al Hudeidah governorate, at noon Wednesday, and Houthi militias incurred new losses at the hands of the joint forces that responded to an attack on their positions, a day after the escalation and attacks were frustrated in Al-Durahimi, Al-Najah and Al-Tuhita.


A military source said that the joint forces responded to a suicide attack by the Houthi militia, this afternoon, in the Hayis district, south of Al Hodeidah governorate, after which the militias incurred heavy losses.

The members of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, the Almoravids east of the city of Al-Durahimi , managed to shoot down the Houthi drone, as it was flying over their positions on Tuesday evening.