{"id":2044,"date":"2026-10-02T12:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:03:56","slug":"yemen-carried-out-20-strikes-on-houthi-targets-in-taiz-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2044","title":{"rendered":"Yemen carried out 20 strikes on Houthi targets in Taiz province"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The military spokesperson for Yemen\u2019s internationally recognised government said on Friday that warplanes carried out 20 strikes over \u200bthe past three hours targeting Houthi movements, personnel, vehicles and \u200cmilitary equipment in Taiz province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The strikes come amid the most serious escalation between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-aligned Houthis since a UN-brokered truce largely halted cross-border attacks \u200bin 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Unchallenged occupation of southwestern Yemen\u2019s Taiz would give the \u200bHouthis full control over the country\u2019s north, a tighter grip \u2060on the Red Sea coast and easier access to the south \u200band the southern port city of Aden, seat of the government.<\/p>\n<p>The renewed \u200bconflict has already displaced tens of thousands of people and could reshape control in Yemen, with implications for Red Sea shipping lanes and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/saudi-led-coalition-says-houthis-attacked-power-station-medina-2026-10-01\/\">said \u200bon Thursday<\/a> the Houthis attacked a power distribution station in Medina \u200bthat supplies electricity to the Prophet\u2019s Mosque.<\/p>\n<p>A Houthi military source, quoted by the Houthi-run \u200cSaba news agency, denied the claim and said it was intended to cover up what he described as Saudi Arabia\u2019s failure to substantiate an earlier accusation that the Houthis had targeted the Muslim holy city of Mecca.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi \u200bArabia said two \u200bweeks ago it \u2060had intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone south of Mecca before it entered restricted airspace over the city. \u200bThe Houthis denied targeting Mecca or any other Islamic \u200bholy site.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting was widespread across Taiz, and authorities had ordered the closure of all roads leading into the province, designating them military operational areas, six military \u2060sources \u200btold Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Around 19 roads were affected by the \u200bclosures, including the main route running from southern Sanaa to Taiz, the sources said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military spokesperson for Yemen\u2019s internationally recognised government said on Friday that warplanes carried out 20 strikes over \u200bthe past three hours targeting Houthi movements, personnel, vehicles and \u200cmilitary equipment in Taiz province. The strikes come amid the most serious escalation between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-aligned Houthis since a UN-brokered truce largely halted cross-border attacks \u200bin 2022. Unchallenged occupation of southwestern Yemen\u2019s Taiz would give the \u200bHouthis full control over the country\u2019s north, a tighter grip \u2060on the Red Sea coast and easier access to the south \u200band the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}