A picture published by the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV of previous US-British raids on Sanaa.

Today, Sunday, the Ansar Allah group (Houthis) announced that one person was killed and 6 others were injured in an American-British bombing of Taiz Governorate. While the Houthis affirmed their adherence to the right to respond and to prevent Israeli ships, Iran condemned the strikes carried out by the United States and Britain on Yemen.

Breaking news on the Houthi-run Al-Masirah satellite channel said: “A citizen (civilian) was killed and 6 others were injured, all from one family, as a result of the American-British aggression’s air strikes on the Shamir area in the Maqbana District in Taiz Governorate.”

The channel broadcast a video clip showing the injured people inside a hospital in Taiz.

This is the first time that the Houthi group has announced civilian casualties in American-British raids since the start of the two countries' operations on January 12.

At dawn on Sunday, US-British coalition fighters launched a series of air strikes targeting various Houthi sites in the governorates of Sanaa, Amran, Taiz, and Hodeidah.

The British Air Force announced that 4 Typhoon aircraft carried out a strike on Houthi military installations in Yemen.

The British forces explained that they were able to identify a number of long-range drones, used by Ansar Allah for reconnaissance and attack missions, several miles northeast of Sanaa.

The British Air Force said, "The planning of this strike took into account avoiding any civilian casualties."

For its part, US Central Command published on its account on the “X” platform scenes of F-18 Super Hornet fighters taking off from the US aircraft carrier “Dwight D. Eisenhower” to carry out strikes against targets belonging to the Ansar Allah group in Yemen last night.

Since the beginning of 2024, the Washington-led coalition has launched raids that it says target Houthi sites in various regions of Yemen, in response to their attacks in the Red Sea, which was met with a response from the group from time to time.

Condemn and promise to respond

Politically, Ansar Allah group spokesman Muhammad Abdel Salam said that the continued US-British raids on Yemen are “a condemned and rejected aggression, and come in the context of futile attempts to prevent Yemen from continuing its support position for the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in Gaza.”

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For his part, the military spokesman for the Ansar Allah group, Yahya Saree, said, “The Yemeni armed forces will confront the American-British escalation with more qualitative military operations.”

Brigadier General Abdullah bin Amer, Deputy Head of the Ansar Allah Group’s Moral Guidance Department, said that one of the facilities that was bombed in Sanaa was nothing but a pesticide factory in the Al-Nahda neighborhood north of the capital, a densely populated area, which led to the destruction of several homes.

Iranian condemnation

In this context, Iran on Sunday condemned the strikes carried out by the United States and Britain on Yemen.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said, "By committing such attacks, the United States and Britain want to escalate the tension and crisis in the region, and expand the scope of war and instability."

The official Iranian IRNA news agency quoted Kanaani as saying, “It is certain that this type of arbitrary and aggressive military operations will not achieve anything for these aggressor countries.”

In solidarity with the Gaza Strip - which is facing a devastating Israeli war with American support - the Houthis targeted, with missiles and drones, Israeli cargo ships or those linked to them in the Red Sea, determined to continue their operations until the war on the Strip ends.

With the intervention of Washington and London and the tensions taking a noticeable escalation since last January, the Houthi group announced that it now considers all American and British ships among its military targets.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies