An explosion resulting from an American-British air strike on Sanaa earlier in March (Anatolia)
The US army announced that it bombed facilities and destroyed Houthi marches in new strikes targeting them in Yemen, while a member of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, Muhammad Ali al-Houthi, described these attacks as reckless and said that their goal was to break the naval blockade on ships linked to Israel.
For its part, the US Central Command said that it carried out strikes against 3 underground storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, and it also said that it destroyed 4 drones in areas under Houthi control.
The Central Command announced that the Houthis launched 4 ballistic missiles from their areas of control towards the Red Sea, but said that no injuries or damage were reported by commercial ships or the coalition it leads.
Media outlets affiliated with the Houthi group reported that the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, was subjected to five air strikes on Friday evening, attributing them to what they called the American-British aggression, in reference to the coalition led by the United States and Britain.
Houthi media also reported 5 other raids on Al-Munira District, north of Hodeidah (western Yemen).
In the wake of a series of US-British air strikes, a member of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, said on Saturday that America and Britain are carrying out “reckless” attacks on Yemen.
He added that the primary goal of these attacks is to break the naval blockade on ships linked to “the usurping entity besieging Gaza,” and that the continuation of the attacks “confirms the continuation of America and Britain in supporting massacres and genocide... and using starvation as a weapon against the people of Gaza.”
He considered, in a statement, that “this barbaric aggression is terrorism, illegal, and failed criminality,” stressing that “any aggressive raids will not prevent the Yemenis and the armed forces (affiliated with the group) from continuing to target Israeli ships or those heading to the ports of occupied Palestine until the aggression stops and the blockade is lifted.” Gaza".
Abdul Salam, who is also the official spokesman for the Houthis, also affirmed "Yemen's right to self-defense and to respond to sources of threat."
The raids come as part of almost daily strikes on sites that Washington says the Houthis use to launch missiles and drones toward ships in the Red Sea.
The Houthis have escalated their military operations in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, despite international warnings of the dangers of attacks launched by the group against commercial and oil ships.
Since last January 12, the United States and Britain have continued to launch raids on Houthi positions to “combat” attacks launched by the group on navigation in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The Houthis said that they had targeted more than 70 ships since the start of operations in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab, and the Gulf of Aden. They also announced the expansion of the scope of their operations to the Indian Ocean to prevent Israeli ships from sailing toward the Cape of Good Hope.
Source: Al Jazeera + agencies