Latest Updates on Yemen, 23 January 2023

Saada:
According to the ISWNews Analysis Group, the casualties inflicted by the Saudi coalition’s artillery and shelling strikes on the border districts of Saada Governorate have reached nine martyrs and 94 injured since January 1. According to the statistics, the attacks left eight martyrs and 45 injured, including one African migrant in Shada district as well as one martyr and 49 wounded, including 22 African migrants in Munbah district.

Hudaydah:
– The Saudi coalition forces violated the ceasefire 114 times in the last 48 hours in this province.
– In the last 48 hours, the drones of the Saudi coalition have bombed Ansar Allah’s positions in the districts of Hays and al-Jabaliya five times.

Aden:
– Britain’s embassy in Yemen welcomed and backed a decision by the Supreme Economic Council of the resigned government of Yemen in order to surge the exchange dollar rate by 50% for the import of commodities in the ports supervised by the Saudi coalition.
– The Government of National Salvation, Parliament and Ansar Allah officials have slammed the British embassy’s support for the resigned government and described the measure as another crime against the people of Yemen.
– In response to the comments made by the UK’s Ambassador to Yemen Richard Oppenheim, former President of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee of Yemen Mohammed Ali al-Houthi pointed to the economic war between Russia and Europe, saying that we will also support Russia’s economic decisions against Britain and NATO member states.
Notably, the resigned government of Yemen has been facing a harsh budget deficit after Ansar Allah blocked it from illegal export of Yemen’s oil and pushed them to pay salaries of all Yemeni workforces from the incomes.

Lahij:
According to information released by local sources, Tareq Saleh’s forces dispatched a battalion of the Joint Forces (Quwat al-Mushtarika) subdivisions of the “Yemeni National Resistance”, and took control of the Ras al-Ara region on the coastal regions of Lahij Governorate on January 14.

Abyan:
On January 18, a bomb blast on a road where a vehicle carrying the quick reaction forces of the resigned government (UAE-affiliated forces) in Mudiyah village in Abyan Governorate left major commander of the quick reaction forces Abdul Rahman Al-Makar along with two of his companions dead and several others wounded. The terrorist group named Ansar al-Sharia seems to be the main suspect of the guerrilla attacks and bombings in southern areas of Yemen recently.

Shabwah:
On January 19, Ansar Allah artillery forces raided the hideouts of the Southern Transitional Council militants in response to their recent strikes on the Uqabat al-Qunza front in Shabwah Governorate. See on interactive map

Socotra:
Local sources in the Yemeni city of Hadibu informed of the deployment of new UAE forces in vicinity of the Socotra Airport. The forces replaced the flag of the Southern Transitional Council with the UAE flag in military bases and outposts in Socotra Island.

Saudi Arabia:
Major General Amer al-Shehri, commander of the ground forces of the Saudi Army in ​​Khamis Mushait, lost his life because of a heart attack at Jizan hospital. Some media outlets attributed his death to a conflict with Ansar Allah fighters in Jizan, but the claim is not confirmable regarding an ongoing truce in Yemen’s war zones.

(Image: The recent meeting of Rashad Al Alimi, the head of the presidential council of the resigned government, with Richard Oppenheim, the British ambassador to Yemen.)