US and British airstrikes against targets in Yemen in response to attacks on merchant ships in Red Seathe pro-Iranians pledged to retaliate Houthi.
The raids followed a series of US strikes against Iranian elite forces and pro-Iranian armed groups in Syria and to Iraqin retaliation for the January 28 attack on an airbase in Jordan that killed three American servicemen and injured dozens.
Based on what has become known, yesterday was the third joint operation of the armed forces of the United States and the United Kingdom against the Houthis in Yemen. US forces have launched several other airstrikes against the militants themselves.
The new blows “will not shake” the “Houthi support for the Palestinian people resisting in Gaza and they will not go unanswered and punished“, warned the Yahya Sarithe military spokesman for the Houthis.
Without citing casualties, he said there had been 48 strikes “over the last few hours” in six provinces, including 13 in the capital Sanaa and its suburbs and nine in the Houthi-held Hodeidah region.
“Either there will be peace for us, Palestine and Gaza, or there will be no peace and security for you in our region,” warned another Houthi representative, Nasr al-Din Amer, yesterday, Saturday. “(We will respond) with escalation to escalation».
It is pointed out that Saturday’s bombings hit 36 militant targets in “13 locations in Yemen in retaliation for the Houthi’s ongoing attacks against international merchant shipping as well as warships transiting the Red Sea,” said a joint statement by the US, Britain and other countries that provided support for the operation.
According to the statement, underground weapons and ammunition storage facilities, missile systems, launchers, radars and other facilities were targeted.
It is recalled that the Houthis began attacking maritime traffic in the Red Sea in November and explained that they consider ships of American and British interests, as well as warships in the area, to be legitimate military targets.
The US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that yesterday’s strikes were aimed at reducing “the capabilities of the Iranian-backed Houthi paramilitaries to carry out their destabilizing attacks”.
In the early hours of this morning, the United States announced that it had launched a new cruise missile strike against Houthi surface ships that were “ready to launch at ships in the Red Sea». Wounds were targeted on Saturday by six Houthi anti-ship missiles.
Also, the US military on Friday destroyed eight drones off the coast of Yemen and four more on the ground to “protect freedom of navigation» from the Houthi attacks.
With information from APE-MPE, AFP, Reuters