US and UK bomb 30 Houthi targets in Yemen

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2024-02-03 21:41:05

MADRID, 3 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –

US and UK forces have attacked at least 30 targets of Yemen’s Houthi militias in at least ten locations.

The attacks have been launched from the surface and also from the air using aircraft such as the F/A-18, according to US sources cited by CNN.

Among the targets attacked are command and control centers, an underground weapons warehouse and other weapons used by the Houthis to attack international freight routes in the Red Sea, one of the sources explained.

This same Saturday, the US Armed Forces reported the destruction of at least a dozen Houthi drones during a series of incidents throughout last Friday.

The first incident took place at 10:30 a.m. Sanaa time, the capital of Yemen, (8:30 a.m. on Friday in Spain) when the American destroyer ‘USS Carney’ destroyed a drone in the Gulf of Aden, without damage or casualties. to regret.

Four hours later, US Army Central Command forces launched an attack that destroyed four Yemeni insurgency drones, “ready to launch” from “insurgent-controlled areas of Yemen.”

“US forces determined that they presented an imminent threat to US cargo ships and ships in the area and therefore decided to launch this self-defense operation to destroy them,” they explained.

Finally, at 9:20 p.m. (7:30 p.m. in Spain), the destroyer ‘USS Laboon’ and F/A-18 fighter jets from the aircraft carrier strike group ‘Dwight D. Eisenhower’ began an operation that led to the downing of seven non-military aircraft. crews of the insurgency over the Red Sea, again without damage or victims among the North American forces.

The Yemeni Houthis control central and northern Yemen and have carried out attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea in support of the Gaza Strip, the target of an Israeli military offensive.

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