Yemen’s military claims over 1,500 Houthi casualties in previous 24 hours | Houthis Information

Government forces shut a key crossing connecting Houthi-held al-Houban to government-held Taiz metropolis.

Yemen’s internationally recognised authorities forces have carried out almost 500 navy operations, killing or wounding 1,540 Houthi rebels previously 24 hours, in response to the military.

Warplanes, drones, artillery, missiles and rocket launchers had been used to focus on Houthi positions in numerous elements of Yemen, navy spokesman Colonel Majed Abdullah al-Nazili mentioned on Friday night.

Most of the casualties got here within the governorate of Taiz the place the operations halted the Houthi advance, al-Nazili mentioned. The government-held metropolis of Taiz has become a focal point of the renewed fighting.

The military spokesman didn’t point out any casualties amongst authorities forces.

Key border crossing closed

On Saturday, the military’s media official Ammar al-Sami’i informed Al Jazeera that the federal government had closed the al-Houban crossing in Taiz.

The crossing had beforehand been closed for 9 years and was later reopened to civilians in 2024 for “humanitarian causes”, Sami’i mentioned, because the street is one in every of Yemen’s most essential connections between territory held by the opposing sides. It connects Houthi-held al-Houban to government-held Taiz metropolis.

Sami’i mentioned safety causes are behind the closure, following an try by the Houthis to infiltrate Taiz by way of the street, assaults within the neighborhood and a basic navy buildup.

A fragile truce struck between the federal government and the Houthis in 2022 collapsed in July this yr, and preventing in Yemen has escalated considerably since then.

In mid-September, the Houthis swept throughout elements of western Yemen, seizing the port metropolis of Mocha and key strategic islands within the Bab al-Mandeb strait.

Since then, anti-Houthi forces have largely stabilised the entrance strains.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced because the preventing restarted.

Yemen has been embroiled in civil conflict because the Houthis seized the capital of Sanaa in 2014, forcing the internationally recognised authorities to retreat to Aden.