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/ Today, Saturday, the US Air Force carried out new air strikes against Houthi sites in Yemen, according to what a Pentagon official said.
The official said that the air strikes destroyed radar devices used by the Houthis, according to Sky News Arabia.
Reuters reported, citing media outlets affiliated with the Houthi group in Yemen, that the United States and Britain were targeting Sanaa with several raids.
Reuters also quoted two officials as saying that the US army is carrying out another strike in Yemen against the Houthis.
CNN also said, “The United States is launching new strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.”
Later, the US Central Military Command (Centcom) announced that it had carried out a new strike against the Yemeni Houthis, targeting a site that includes a radar, the day after an American and British bombing targeted the sites of what they described as “rebels accused of threatening international maritime traffic in the Red Sea.”
She explained that the latest attack aims to weaken the Houthi group’s ability to attack naval ships.
Centcom said in a statement that “US forces carried out a strike against a radar site in Yemen” at around 3:45 a.m. local time on Saturday (00:45 GMT).
She added: “This strike was carried out by the US aircraft carrier Carney using Tomahawk Land Attack missiles in a follow-up to the strikes carried out on January 12 with the aim of weakening the Houthis’ ability to attack naval ships, including commercial ships.”
For its part, the Houthi group announced that the strikes targeted Al-Dailami Air Base north of the capital, which has been under their control since 2014.
These strikes come for the second night in a row following weeks during which the Houthis targeted commercial ships they suspected of being linked to Israel or heading to Israeli ports, near the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea, in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, which has been witnessing a war with Israel since October 7.
Western countries, led by the United States and Britain, deployed battleships in the Red Sea, and Washington formed an international maritime coalition to protect navigation in the region through which 12 percent of global trade passes.
Washington and London have repeatedly warned the Houthis of “consequences” unless they stop their attacks on ships.
Yesterday, Friday, the United States and Britain defended the military strikes on the Houthis in Yemen as legal and consistent with international law.
While Russia described the US-British operation as disproportionate and illegal.
Other countries expressed their fears that the American and British strikes would inflame the already rising tension in the region due to Israel’s war on the Hamas movement in Gaza.