The Yemeni Army communicated this Monday that, in the last day, it has carried out more than 130 military actions directed against positions of the Houthi insurgency, without offering for the moment a balance of victims derived from these operations.
"We have carried out 133 military operations against the capabilities and elements of the Houthi terrorist militia in the last 24 hours," affirmed the spokesperson for the Armed Forces of Yemen, Colonel Abdulá Al Nuzaili, in a message on social media.
As detailed, the government forces have employed rocket launchers, artillery pieces, and drones to "destroy the sources of threat," with the support of various units of the internationally recognized Yemeni Army deployed along the front lines.
This new wave of bombings occurs just two days after the Army itself reported more than 180 attacks against enclaves controlled by the Houthis, which would have caused, according to their version, "dozens" of wounded and dead among the rebel fighters.
In parallel, this same Monday the Houthi militia has claimed to have launched a missile attack against a Saudi warship off the port of the city of Mocha, in the southwest of the country, an incident in which four other vessels acting as "escort" for the main ship would also have been involved.
TURK CALLS TO REDUCE TENSIONS
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has warned that the intensification of hostilities in Yemen "is killing and injuring an increasing number of civilians," for which he has urged all actors in the conflict to "reduce tensions and prevent the Yemeni people from suffering more hardships."
Turk lamented that, since August 6, at least 17 civilians have died in attacks carried out by the Houthis against areas under the control of the Yemeni government. These victims add to two others recorded in July in areas dominated by the opposition.
"I call on all parties to reduce tensions and prevent the Yemeni people from suffering more hardships," Turk declared, adding that "the Yemeni people have already suffered too much from the devastating legacy of years of conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crisis."
With a minimum of 18 million people in a situation of food insecurity, the UN official has warned that attacks against civilian facilities can "worsen an already serious situation," and has insisted that these actions must cease "immediately."
The latest reports from the United Nations also indicate that the Yemeni government has carried out "almost 200 attacks against Houthi positions in a period of 24, killing and injuring dozens of people and destroying military equipment and weapon depots," according to the organization in a statement.
The UN also reminds that the prolonged political and humanitarian crisis that began in 2011 has forced "millions of people to flee, devastated the economy, and left about 20 million people in need of humanitarian assistance."