A British fighter as it prepares to take off as part of previous US-British strikes on Houthi targets (Getty)
US Central Command said yesterday, Wednesday, that it destroyed an anti-ship ballistic missile and two drones launched by the Houthi group from Yemen towards the Red Sea.
It confirmed that it destroyed a surface-to-air missile system in an area under Houthi control, noting that no injuries or damage were reported as a result of the attacks.
The US Army did not give details about the area it said it targeted and that it belonged to the Houthis, and there has been no comment yet from the group on what the US Central Command announced.
In solidarity with the Gaza Strip - which has been facing a devastating Israeli war since October 7, 2023 - the Houthis targeted, with missiles and drones, Israeli cargo ships or those linked to them in the Red and Arab Bahrain.
With Washington and London intervening through a coalition that launched strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen, and tensions took an escalating turn last January, the Houthi group announced that it now considered all American and British ships among its military targets.
Recently, the group said it would expand the strikes to include ships linked to Israel passing in the Indian Ocean via the Cape of Good Hope route.
Since last October 7, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip and committing daily massacres that left about 33,000 martyrs - most of them children and women - and tens of thousands injured, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
Source: Al Jazeera + Reuters