Yemeni Ad-Dali's governor escapes assassination attempt

A senior Houthi field commander was killed, on Tuesday, along with a number of his companions in fierce battles with Yemeni national army forces in Taiz province, while governor of Yemen’s southern province of Ad-Dali survived an assassination attempt.

The Houthis have already admitted the killing of the leader in the province of leadership Abdulmalik Shahari, in an air raid carried out by coalition aircraft west of Taiz, last Saturday.

Informed sources said that clashes broke out, on Tuesday afternoon, between the National Army, backed by Popular Resistance, in the brigade 30, and Houthis militants in Hamak, which resulted in the death and wounding of 8 elements of the militants.

Yemeni forces announced on Tuesday their control of one of the areas east of Mokha, southwest of the country, after fierce fighting lasted for hours with Houthi gunmen and forces loyal to them.

Arab coalition aircraft launched eight air strikes targeting the positions of militias in the area of Al-Afraa and Wadi Al-Majash, in Al-Wazea'iyah directorate, west of the province, resulting in the deaths and injuries and destruction of weapons storehouse of Houthis.

In Ad-Dali city, the governor of Yemen’s southern province of Ad-Dali survived an assassination attempt on Tuesday, according to a local source.
 
Fadl al-Jaadi came under fire as his car was passing near a military camp in Ad-Dali city. The governor was unhurt in the attack, which injured two of his associates.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.  Al-Jaadi was appointed as Ad-Dali governor in mid-2015 by Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.
 
Government forces control most of Ad-Dali province, while Houthi rebels rule some areas in the province.
 
Yemen fell into civil war in 2014, when Houthi rebels and allied forces of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh overran capital Sanaa and other parts of the country.

On the other hand, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced its withdrawal from work in the General Hospital of the Revolution in Ibb, as a result of violating the principle of neutrality under which the medical organization operates.
A sources said that the organization was suffering from practices of gunmen belonging to the Houthi group, and their continuing interference in the work of the organization in violation of the impartiality of MSF.

The source added that the organization worked in areas of conflict, such as Afghanistan, and neutrality pushed all parties to the conflict in those areas, to stop interfering in the work of the organization and its strategies, pointing out that this decision is final and irreversible.