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On December 16, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) Military Media released a video showing a fighter of the group dodging four airstrikes carried out by Saudi-led coalition warplanes while moving on a motorcycle along the border with the Saudi province of Jizan.
According to the Military Media, the fighter, Hussien Habrah, survived four other airstrikes just a few hours before the video was taken.
The failed airstrikes were carried out by two warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition, an F-15 and an F-16. Heavy munitions were clearly used.
The Houthis acknowledged that Habrah was killed in a later battle with the Saudi-led coalition and its proxies along the border with Jizan.
The effectiveness and accuracy of Saudi-led coalition airstrikes on the Houthis have been always doubted by many observers. Despite this, the coalition intensified its aerial operations recently in an attempt to deter the group.
Just between December 17 and 18, coalition warplanes carried out 19 airstrikes on Houthi forces in the central province of Ma’rib and the northern province of al-Jawf. According to the coalition’s claims, the airstrikes killed 80 Houthi fighters and destroyed 11 military vehicles of the group. The coalition didn’t release any footage to prove its claims.
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