The news agency Saba, linked to the Huthis rebels, has today advanced that attacks by Saudi Arabia's military campaign against the port city of Mokha in Yemen have resulted in the deaths of six people.
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22/09/2026
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“ Six civilians, including two children and one woman, were killed, and another eight — including one child and one woman — were injured in air strikes by the coalition led by Saudi Arabia against Mokha,” Saba reported.
“ Enemy aircraft launched several air raids against civilian residences in the city of Mokha, Taiz province, in a direct and deliberate assault against civilian targets ", said on social networks the spokesperson of Huthis Health Protection, Anis Alasbahi.
He added that “this systematic crime reveals the determination of Saudi aggression to attack innocent civilians and destroy Yemeni families.”.
The Huthis, pro-Iran fighters who until then controlled much of the north of the country — including the capital, Sanaa, and Hodeida (west) — advanced south in a few days, taking the port of Mokha in the Red Sea in early September.
On Monday, the leader of the Huthis rebels warned Turkey and Pakistan not to engage in the Saudi military campaign in Yemen after these three Muslim countries signed a joint defence agreement.
“ We advise the Turks and Pakistanis not to be involved in the political and material gains of the Saudi enemy,” said Abdelmalik al Huti, in a speech broadcast on television on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the conquest of the capital, Sanaa, by the Huthis in 2014, when the war broke out in Yemen and the rebels took control of much of the country's northwest.
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a joint defence agreement on 7 August stipulating that any attack on one of these countries will be considered an assault on the three.
Alongside the offensive against government troops in Yemen, the Huthis have been launching missiles and drones against Saudi Arabia’s military and energy facilities for months, while imposing a blockade on all Riyadh-related vessels transiting through the Red Sea.
The Huthis offensive rekindled the war in Yemen, which began in 2014 after the capture of Sanaa and which had been frozen since the parties agreed to a United Nations-mediated ceasefire at the end of 2022, which remained largely so far.
According to the UN, nearly 130,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Yemen in recent weeks, during which Iran's insurgent allied movement has taken control of the coast and islands in the Red Sea, consolidating its dominance over Bab el-Mandeb's narrow strategic.
The Huthis claim that military operations in Yemen do not seek to achieve commercial navigation, except for Saudi ships, which have been subject to a blockade of the rebels since July.
After years of relative calm in Yemen, the fragile truce agreed in 2022 collapsed in July, when the Huthis challenged Riyadh's control over Yemeni airspace, allowing a plane with Iranian representatives to land in Yemen.
In recent weeks, the Huthis have launched a major military offensive against the troops of the internationally recognized government and supported by Riyadh, which is based in Aden.
The Huthis are part of the so-called axis of resistance, formed by political and armed groups supported by Iran, alongside Hamas in Palestine, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Shia militias in Iraq.
Between 2023 and 2025, they attacked commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea as a form of support for Hamas in the war with Israel in the Gaza Strip.