🚨🇾🇪🇾🇪 — Houthi military outlets claimed the initiation of a synchronized multi-front offensive on Thursday afternoon, accompanied with a 14-ballistic-missile barrage against the Port of Mokha to cover ground advances. Moving into the evening, Houthi operational channels reported deploying explosive drone swarms against PLC targets in western Taiz amid local telecommunication blackouts, asserting penetrations from Maqbanah into rural Jabal Habashi to seize Humrah, Al-Quz Al-Asfal, Al-Rahbah, and the tactical heights of Jabal Nu'man to establish fire control over residential sectors — Al-Sahel Al-Gharbi / Houthi media / cross-reports.
➡️ PLC forces engaged Houthi formations in continuous 15-hour battles along established contact lines, executing counterattacks across the Al-Barh, Al-Kadha, and Maqbanah sectors. National Resistance air defense teams intercepted two loitering munitions over Al-Barh, the 52nd Infantry Brigade downed three combat reconnaissance drones spanning Suqam and Al-Barasha, and the 13th Infantry Brigade reportedly repelled secondary Houthi pushes near Jabal Dabbas.
Confronting the escalation, Maqbanah front commander Col. Mufaddal Al-Humayri confirmed his sector sustained tens of infantry waves supported by hundreds of mortar rounds, howitzer shells, Katyusha rockets, and suicide munitions, conceding the tactical loss of several frontline positions; however, Al-Humayri assessed the operational dynamics as a standard cycle of advance and retreat, asserting high unit morale and a strategic intent to reclaim lost sectors alongside future counter-offensives.
➡️ Operational updates and conflicting post-battle claims intensified overnight as PLC state television confirmed the emergency arrival of Giants Brigades and Nation's Shield reinforcements to secure the Taiz and Red Sea coastal sectors following aggregate Houthi bombardments exceeding 70 missiles across the entire coastal offensive. PLC tactical commands reported neutralizing over 18 Houthi fighters and killing Houthi field commander Abu Ali Al-Madani in Al-Kadha, while noting widespread civilian flight caused by Houthi shelling on displacement camps in Al-Dhabab and Al-Sharajah.
Conversely, Houthi military channels asserted the capture of new strategic zones approaching Mokha, the elimination of dozens of opposing troops, and the battlefield elimination of pro-government Al-Barh commander Muhammad Hammoud Al-Zomor.
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