Three Houthi militants were killed on Saturday, during an ambush by the Army forces, west of the city of Taiz.

The media center of the Taiz axis, on its Facebook page, reported that "three members of the Houthi militia were killed in a tight ambush of the army forces in the Western Front, to coincide with the failure of an attempt to infiltrate the same front."

This came one day after the Houthi militia targeted the army sites near the eastern port with an artillery shell, and fired medium weapons and machine guns 23 on the residential neighborhoods in the vicinity of the central bank east of the city, where the line linking the port and the Ashraf Basin passes, according to the media center of the Taiz axis.

In a related context, the Giants forces announced, on Saturday, to confront an attack by the Houthi militia on mountainous locations in the Mala'a front in the Harib district, on the outskirts of the Al -Juba Directorate, south of Ma'rib Governorate, northeast of Yemen.

The Media Center for the Giants Brigades said on its Facebook page that the giants forces managed to confront "the Houthi terrorist attack on the sites in the mountains of the Mala'a Front, and violent clashes fought in which the militias dispelled heavy losses in equipment and lives."

The Giants Brigades added that their forces used in their confrontation with the Houthi attack, light and medium weapons, and the militias were forced to retreat and escape.

The Giants Brigades indicated that its forces continue to confront, thwart, and deter the Houthi attacks and infiltrations on the fronts of the Harib district, south of Ma'rib Governorate.

The Houthi group operates militarily against government forces, especially on the fronts of Marib and Taiz, despite the truce announced since April 2022 under the auspices of internationalism, in light of warnings of returning to the cycle of conflict that civilians pay for.

The United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grendberg, had warned, on Thursday, that the current path of Yemen is deeply concerned, indicating that "we are going through a stage in which fears are increasing from returning to a comprehensive conflict."

In his surrounding before the Security Council meeting on the situation in Yemen, the UN envoy renewed his invitation to the parties to refrain from waving the military force and taking reprisals that may return Yemen to a spiral of widespread conflict, civilians pay again its high price.