#Yemen / #SaudiArabia 🇾🇪🇸🇦: Ansar Allah (#Houthis) captured PLC positions in #Taiz, including house of the Saudi-backed “Rashad Al-Alimi” (President of PLC).

Ansar Allah fighters armed with Iranian DIO 'Sageg' RPG Launchers with Bulgarian RHEAT-7MA rocket, Type 85 Designated Marksman Rifle, W-85 heavy machine guns, PKM / Type 80 machine guns and AKM / Type 56-1 assault rifles.

— War Noir (@war_noir) October 7, 2026

Taiz City | Day Three of the Siege | Besieged Taiz continues to fight back, but the pressure on the city and its civilian population is growing.

We are receiving reports of fuel shortages, dwindling supplies of baby formula and sharp increases in food prices, with some goods reportedly doubling or tripling in price. Houthi forces now control the main road linking Taiz with Al-Turbah and Aden, effectively severing the city’s primary southern supply route, while Houthi positions surround Taiz from all sides.

One resident today reported paying 10,000 Yemeni rials [$6.37] for a small bottle of gasoline.

Despite the shortages, civilian support for the front lines continues. Video posted by Taiz resident Sanad Raweh shows a civilian convoy carrying food, water and other supplies from the city to troops at the Air Defense front on Jabal al-Sumoud wal-Tahaddi.

Raweh said he visited the front alongside Ali al-Maamari al-Ajar, director general of the Taiz branch of the Yemen Petroleum Company. He described morale among the troops as extremely high and said the civilian effort would continue across other fronts surrounding the city.

And they are still fighting.

The Yemen National Army’s Taiz Axis @axistaiz reports that government forces repelled a Houthi assault on the Al-Anin front in Bilad al-Wafi, Jabal Habashi district, west of the city. Government troops backed by local resistance fighters are also reporting intense fighting around Jabal Han.

Some of today’s heaviest clashes are being reported across Jabal Habashi and Al-Aqrud, while fighting has intensified across much of the Taiz Axis, particularly in the southern countryside and on the fronts surrounding the city.

On the Al-Silw front south of Taiz, government forces say they repelled another Houthi assault, killing 12 Houthi fighters and wounding others. Yemeni military aircraft also reportedly struck Jabal Matran in the Qadas area of Al-Mawasit district.

Against this backdrop, prominent Taiz-based anti-Houthi activist Taha Saleh issued a deeply personal message to the city’s residents and local resistance today.

His message was essentially this. Taiz should prepare to fight even without coalition air support. He argued that the city has been here before, has survived siege before and must now rely first on its own resistance.

Saleh acknowledged the scale of Houthi advances across rural Taiz, but drew a distinction between capturing sparsely defended countryside and breaking into the heavily defended urban core. He said the Houthis are throwing large numbers of reinforcements against Taiz from multiple directions but have so far failed to make meaningful gains against the city’s established defensive fronts.

He pointed specifically to the recent fighting on the eastern front, the Air Defense front, Jabal Han and other positions around the city, arguing that some of these battles have been among the heaviest Taiz has experienced since 2015.

His message to residents was one of defiance. Taiz has been surrounded before. It found alternative supply routes before. And, in his view, its defenders today are more numerous, better armed and more experienced than during the earlier siege.

“Now, everyone, this is our battle,” Saleh said. “We are used to fighting alone. We are used to holding out alone.”

@taha_saleh_taiz's message https://t.co/L6UNuYUjiY

— Basha باشا (@BashaReport) October 7, 2026