The US State Department announced that the US envoy to Yemen, Timothy Lenderking, has started a tour that includes the Gulf states and Britain to revive the political process in Yemen, while the Saudi-Emirati coalition is launching continuous air strikes in Marib and Sana’a.
A Foreign Ministry statement stated that Lenderking’s tour aims to revitalize peace efforts in coordination with the United Nations, senior officials in the Gulf states and international partners.
The statement added that Lenderking intends to pressure the parties to stop the military escalation and participate in a comprehensive peace process, and will also focus on the urgent need to end the humanitarian and economic crises afflicting Yemenis.
On the other hand, the Saudi-Emirati coalition announced the implementation of 19 targeting operations against the Houthis in the Marib Governorate during the past 24 hours.
During a press conference for the Incidents Assessment Team in Yemen, the coalition announced the killing of 90 of what it described as terrorists and the destruction of 11 Houthi military vehicles during the operations.
Houthi media also reported that coalition aircraft are launching a number of raids on the capital, Sanaa, and that its aircraft are still flying.
In Shabwa governorate, southeast of Yemen, Yemeni sources said that UAE-backed forces entered the “Murra” camp, west of Ataq, the administrative center of the governorate.
The sources added that the new governor of Shabwa, Awad al-Awlaki, issued orders to the army forces stationed in the “Murra” camp to hand it over to the so-called Shabwa Defense Forces, which is the new name for the forces that were called the Shabwa elite, which was formed and supported by the UAE.
The army forces had regained control of Camp Marra from the Shabwa Elite Forces in August 2019 while the UAE-backed forces were trying to take control of Shabwa governorate.
Intense raids on Sanaa
Last night, the coalition continued for the second day of its intensive raids on sites in Sana’a, which it said targeted Houthi camps.
For its part, Houthi media said that the coalition launched 14 air strikes on separate areas in the capital, Sanaa.
Al-Masirah channel account said that the raids were carried out by Emirati planes, and targeted the Al-Rawda neighborhood, the Air Academy, and the Military College Street in the Al-Rawda neighborhood, north of Sanaa.
This escalation comes two days after the Houthi group announced that it had carried out a qualitative military operation in the UAE, and confirmed the targeting of vital facilities in Abu Dhabi and Dubai by drones, ballistic and winged missiles.
The UAE ambassador to the United States, Yousef Al-Otaiba, said in statements during a seminar organized by the Jewish Institute for American National Security that the Houthis used cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones to attack Abu Dhabi this week.
But a US Defense Department official told Al Jazeera that the Pentagon could not confirm the Houthis’ use of missiles in the Abu Dhabi attack.
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