America and Britain have been carrying out strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen since last January (French)

The British Maritime Trade Operations Authority said on Sunday that it had received a report about an incident 85 nautical miles east of Aden in Yemen, and while media outlets affiliated with Ansar Allah (Houthis) reported that sites in Hodeidah and Taiz were exposed to American-British raids, the US Central Command announced that it had destroyed 3 drones. And 5 drone boats in Houthi-controlled areas in the Red Sea.

The British authority added that the captain of a commercial ship reported an explosion near his ship east of Aden, an area where the Houthis usually target ships they say are linked to Israel or the United States.

The Authority indicated that there were no reports of the ship being damaged or the crew being harmed.

Earlier on Saturday, the US Central Command (Centcom) said that its forces succeeded in intercepting and destroying a drone, while another likely fell into the Red Sea, as it put it.

The source added that there were no reports of damage or injuries in the vicinity of the incident in the Red Sea.

The US command also indicated that 5 drone boats and a drone were destroyed yesterday, Saturday, in Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen.

Bombing on Hodeidah

Meanwhile, Houthi-affiliated media reported that what it described as "American-British aggression" launched 4 raids on the Taif area in the Ad-Durayhimi District, south of Hodeidah.

These outlets reported that another raid targeted the Al-Ta'iziyah District in Taiz Governorate, southern Yemen.

Since last November 19, the Houthi group has said that it has been targeting ships owned or operated by Israeli companies or transporting goods to and from Israel, in support of the Palestinian resistance in its confrontation with the Israeli aggression on Gaza. The group has expanded the circle of its attacks to include American and British ships after the start of the raids on Yemen. Last January.

In response to the attacks, the United States and Britain, along with other countries, launched military operations against the Houthis under the name “Guardian of Prosperity,” and Washington and London say that the air strikes aim to weaken the group’s ability to threaten maritime navigation in the Red Sea.

International shipping companies were forced to stop their operations in the Red Sea or divert their operations to avoid Houthi strikes.

Two days ago, Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi vowed to expand the scope of attacks against Israeli ships and ships linked to Israel to “an extent that the enemy does not expect,” and pledged to prevent ships linked to Israel from crossing from the Indian Ocean to the Cape of Good Hope.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies