🚨🇾🇪🇾🇪 — The tactical situation across Taiz reveals a coordinated multi-axis Houthi offensive tightening around the PLC enclave, mapped on the Ali Al-Nassi channel. While Houthi media claims decisive breakthroughs on key southern ridges, PLC reports of intense defensive airstrikes provide clear cross-verification of the fracturing frontlines.

➡️ On the critical southwestern flank (Al-Shamaytain district), Houthi forces claim to have seized the strategic Al-Rasin mountain range. This advance pushes them dangerously close to the key government-held southern hub of At-Turbah. While Houthis report ongoing negotiations with local leaders for a peaceful entry into the city, PLC updates indirectly corroborate the severity of this breach, confirming urgent, retaliatory airstrikes in Rasin to halt the Houthi ground advance.

➡️ Concurrently, in the eastern indentation of the pocket, Houthi forces claim full control over Jabal Same, securing a dominant hilltop firing advantage. This position directly threatens Al-A'lum, located just below the active combat zone. This territorial push is validated by prior PLC field data reporting a massive 14-airstrike wave targeting Same, proving the government’s intense but bypassed efforts to hold these strategic heights.

➡️ To prevent the PLC from shifting troops to reinforce these failing sectors, Houthi forces are pinning down the perimeter. PLC reports confirm violent clashes at Jabal Habashi on the western boundary, alongside emergency air raids in Haifan to protect the critical Haidjah al-Abd pass—the central enclave's last remaining supply highway to the south. Together, the cross-reports and the Al-Nassi map illustrate a rapidly tightening siege, where Houthi high-ground momentum is being met primarily by PLC airpower.

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