Liberation of Hodeida will end Iranian presence in Yemen
yemen — The ongoing battle to liberate the strategic city and port of Al Hodeida is of a crucial importance as it will change the balance of power on ground in favour of the Arab Coalition fighting on behalf of the internationally recognised government in Yemen.
Regaining the strategic city means that the Iran-backed rebels will be deprived of a main gateway where they smuggle in weapons and threaten the shipping movement on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast, as well as a major passage to the capital Sanaa.
In this brief report, Wam sheds light on the strategic importance of the Hodeida’s liberation battle, which comes amid successive and outright triumphs by the Yemenis against their coup perpetrators.
All indictors on ground prove that the Arab Coalition and the joint Yemeni Resistance Forces are steadily advancing toward the strategic city which means an imminent end of the coup plot orchestrated by the Iranaligned Houthis. These successive victories secured on the country’s Red Sea Coast have dealt a heavy blow to the Houthis who had lost control over Al Momary Camp, east of Zubab City, west of Taiz, a strategic area whose fall into the hands of the Yemeni army dismantled the Houthis’ plans to control Bal El Mandeb strait.
The Saudi-led Arab Coalition Forces are foiling the attempts made by the Iran-aligned militias to threaten the international shipping movement in the region. The Coalition recently destroying two boobytrapped boats of Houthis that targeted an oil tanker in the Red Sea.
The consistent threats posed by the rebels to the Red Sea, which accounts for 12 per cent of the world’s oil and merchandise trade movement, entails a concerted action by the international community against these acts of terror. The port of Hodeida consists of eight wharfs in total length reaches to 1405 metres in order to accommodate vessels up to a maximum draft of 9.75 mtrs and an LOA of 200 mtrs. —