Intelligence indicates that the Houthis are preparing to launch ballistic missiles from sites in Hodeidah Governorate towards the cities of Mokha and Al-Khokha on Yemen’s western coast, as military tensions intensify on the Taiz and Al-Jawf fronts.

Information reviewed by Sheba Intelligence indicates that the preparations are concentrated inside farms in the Al-Kadan area and at elevated sites in Al-Jarabih, north of Bajil district. The potential strikes are reportedly intended to target operational facilities used by the National Resistance Forces and the Giants Brigades in Mokha and Al-Khokha.

Sheba Intelligence could not independently verify whether the missiles had been fully prepared or establish a possible launch date.

Simultaneous Pressure on the Western Coast

The reported preparations come as the Houthis expand military operations in western and southwestern Taiz. The group’s fighters have reached the Al-Sharajah junction and cut the Taiz–Mokha road, while clashes continue in Al-Makazemah and Akkad and the Al-Kadaha front remains active.

The timing of the missile preparations in Hodeidah, alongside ground operations in Taiz, points to an effort to increase pressure on government forces and their allies along the western coast and disrupt their movements between Al-Khokha, Mokha and the western Taiz fronts.

Mokha serves as an important military and logistical hub for anti-Houthi forces, while Al-Khokha lies on the coastal route linking southern Hodeidah with Mokha and the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Strikes on the two cities could expand the fighting from the ground fronts in Taiz into areas behind government lines along the coast.

Continued Houthi advances in western Taiz, combined with potential missile strikes, could also increase pressure on the road connecting Taiz with the western coast. Any further movement towards routes leading to Al-Birein, Al-Nashamah and Al-Turbah could threaten connections between Taiz and Yemen’s interim capital, Aden, raising the risk of renewed isolation similar to that experienced by the city during the early years of the war.

Al-Jawf Emerges as a Parallel Front

The developments coincide with Houthi military activity in Al-Jawf Governorate, where warplanes operated by government forces carried out strikes on the Al-Labnat and Al-Khanjar camps, as well as Houthi reinforcements and gatherings east of the provincial capital, Al-Hazm.

The strikes followed the detection of Houthi reinforcements and preparations for a new round of fighting in the governorate, a strategic front connected to Marib, the Saudi border and Houthi-held areas in northern Yemen.

Simultaneous activity in Taiz, Al-Jawf and along the western coast reflects the widening scope of Houthi military movements and an apparent attempt to exert pressure across several fronts. However, there is currently insufficient public evidence to establish that the activity on all three fronts is being directed as part of a single military operation.

Government forces are monitoring the possibility that the escalation could expand from ground attacks to missile and drone strikes against rear positions and supply lines, particularly in Mokha and Al-Khokha, both of which are located near the strategic Bab al-Mandab shipping lane.