2024-01-19 18:49:51
The city of Hodeidah, western Yemen, was subjected to a missile attack claimed by the United States on Friday evening, according to a Sky News Arabia correspondent.
Media outlets affiliated with the Houthis, who control the city overlooking the Red Sea, said that Hodeidah “was subjected to new American-British bombing.”
It reported that “an American-British aggression targeted the Al-Jabanah area in the city of Hodeidah with two raids.”
Strategic Communications Coordinator at the US National Security Council, John Kirby, said that the United States carried out new strikes once morest the Houthis in Yemen.
Last Friday, the United States and Britain launched a series of strikes on Houthi military sites in Yemen, before the US army targeted the group once more the next day and this week.
This comes in response to dozens of attacks carried out by the Houthis in recent weeks on commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, which they say are linked to or headed to Israel, in support of the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to violent attacks since last October.
A week ago, the Houthis also began targeting ships linked to the United States and Britain, in response to the two countries’ strikes on them.
The Houthi group announced early Friday that it had targeted an American ship in the Gulf of Aden “with suitable naval missiles,” stressing that “the hit was direct,” but the US military said that the missiles missed their target.
This came following the US Army targeted two anti-ship missiles, which the Houthis prepared to launch towards the crowded strategic sea lane.
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