Military sources said on Friday 9 October 2026 that the Giants Brigades attacked barracks housing Houthi fighters in Yemen’s Dhu Bab area, following a three-day siege and ultimatum, amid military developments coinciding with naval movements and missile and drone launches around Bab al-Mandab.
Siege of Dhu Bab barracks and arrival of Houthi reinforcements by sea
The sources said the attack targeted the barracks after the siege and ultimatum continued throughout the previous three days. They added that the Houthi fighters in Dhu Bab were besieged when military reinforcements were sent to them by sea. According to the account provided by the military sources, the Houthis sent the reinforcements by sea on the evening before the attack.
The sources did not specify the number of forces that arrived in Dhu Bab or the nature of the military equipment transported with them, describing them only as military reinforcements directed to the besieged fighters. In a simultaneous development, the sources said the Houthis had intensified missile and drone launches at the Bab al-Mandab area during the previous day.
This activity took place in parallel with the siege imposed on the Houthi fighters in Dhu Bab, before the sources announced that the Giants Brigades had carried out their attack on the barracks. Details of the three developments — the attack on the barracks, the dispatch of reinforcements by sea, and the intensification of missile and drone launches — are based on statements from the same military sources.
Dhu Bab and Bab al-Mandab among areas of field activity
These statements place Dhu Bab and Bab al-Mandab within the area of reported field movements during the period preceding the attack.
The sources did not provide an outcome of the attack on the barracks or figures for casualties among the parties. Nor did they specify the precise targets of the missiles and drones beyond referring to Bab al-Mandab. They also provided no further details about the route taken by the maritime reinforcements before they reached the Houthi fighters in Dhu Bab.
