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Government forces spent weeks attacking Houthi positions and fortifications before announcing they had recaptured several strategic overlooks east of al-Hazm, the provincial capital.Rashad al-Alimi, head of the internationally-recognised government’s Presidential Leadership Council, said the operation would continue until it had restored state institutions and the internationally recognised government’s authority over the whole country.A Houthi ballistic missile struck a military training camp in the southern province of al-Dhalea, killing eight people….
No official toll has been released, and some Yemeni media reported higher figures.Government forces said they had carried out air strikes on Houthi positions in western Taiz province.
In northern Lahij, they said they had recaptured positions in al-Maqatira district, which lies on a key defensive line linking Taiz with Aden, the internationally recognised government’s capital.Houthi-affiliated media reported four air strikes on a Central Security Forces camp in the city of al-Bayda, and a strike on a health centre in al-Silw district in Taiz.
The Houthis claimed strikes from Saudi Arabia, which backs the Aden government, had killed civilians over two days this week.Yemen’s Interior Minister Ibrahim Ali Haidan said 21 foreign experts were directing Houthi operations: 14 from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and seven from Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Hezbollah rejected the accusation as “baseless”.Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, civil defence authorities twice activated early-warning sirens in the southern Najran region on Wednesday morning, after a similar alert overnight in the Riyadh region.On Tuesday, the Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted and destroyed a drone over Mecca.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree denied launching any attack on Saudi territory.The United States embassy in Riyadh warned that Houthi attacks on the kingdom could escalate quickly.
US government staff require special permission to use any airport in Saudi Arabia.
The advance on al-Dahida heights, a strategic highland, comes as fighting escalates in al-Dhalea, Lahij and Taiz.
