Serious escalation in Hodeidah

English - Wednesday 11 September 2019 الساعة 06:25 pm
Al-Hodeida/Mocha – NewsYemen.net

Joint forces positions in the city of Hodeidah were bombarded on Wednesday, September 11, 2019, artillery shelling and targeting with heavy and medium machine guns.

 The joint forces' positions in the Duraimi district south of Hodeidah city have been heavily bombed and targeted since the morning.  Al-Tur area in the same district was the target of intensive shelling yesterday evening.

 Heavy night shelling also targeted residential neighborhoods in the southern city of Hays.  On Thursday, the joint forces responded to two successive attacks in Tahita district and its mountainous area after artillery and various weapons shelling.


A military source said that the militias launched intensive shelling Wednesday on different areas east of Hodeidah using various types of heavy and medium weapons.

 Indicating that the positions of the joint forces east of the city of Saleh was shelled by 120-mm artillery and 82-mm artillery shells.