🔻 Yemeni coastal city of Zubab «fell into the hands of the Houthis» Two Yemeni government sources told Reuters on Friday that the Houthis have reached Zubab (Zabdb); The city is located on the north coast of the Bab al-Mandab strait and is the closest point to the island of Mion.

The city is in the west of Taiz governorate, on the western coast of Yemen. Yemeni sources also reported attacks by Saudi aircraft on the Mokha airport.

The port of Mokha has also recently fallen into the hands of Iran-aligned Houthi forces.

Control of Zubab and the island of Mion is of vital importance for gaining control of the Bab al-Mandab strait.

In this way, the Houthis’ control of the Bab al-Mandab strait has become almost complete.

Further Houthi control of the Bab al-Mandab strait and the increase in attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz over the past week have also worried the fuel and energy market, to the point that the price of diesel in the United States reached six dollars per gallon for the first time.