Yemen government forces report 20 airstrikes in Taiz

Yemen’s government forces said 20 airstrikes hit several districts in Taiz province over the past three hours.

Operative Information Center-OMM reports that foreign media outlets carried the information.

The reported targets included Houthi units and assembly points, personnel, vehicles and military equipment.

Government forces said the targets were struck directly, causing losses among Houthi personnel and equipment.

Yemen’s government forces urged residents of Taiz province to stay away from roads used by the Houthis to transport troops and supplies.

A government forces representative also said air defense units intercepted and destroyed Houthi drones in the airspace over Aden. According to the representative, the drones did not strike civilian areas.

Meanwhile, the Saudi-led coalition, which supports Yemen’s internationally recognized government, accused the Houthis of attacking a Saudi power station in Medina, a city considered holy by Muslims, on Oct. 1.

Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, as well as Pakistan, Türkiye and the Muslim World League, condemned the Houthis’ reported attack on civilian infrastructure in Medina.

The Houthi-controlled SABA news agency rejected the accusation. The movement called reports about the incident “false” and said they were intended to cover up Saudi Arabia’s failure to substantiate an earlier accusation that the Houthis had attacked Mecca, a city considered holy by Muslims.

Separately, Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, said Saudi-led coalition aircraft had carried out 47 air and missile strikes in three Yemeni provinces over the past 24 hours.

He said the strikes caused material damage to civilian infrastructure, including communications networks and schools.

Yemen has been engulfed in conflict since the Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa, in 2014. A Saudi-led coalition began military operations in 2015 in support of the internationally recognized government, and fighting has repeatedly affected civilians and infrastructure.