2024-01-13 13:20:42
On the 13th, the United States carried out additional attacks on the facilities of Houthi rebels, an Islamic Shia armed group, in Yemen.
The U.S. Central Command announced that around 3 a.m. on this day, the guided-missile destroyer USS Kani launched an additional strike by firing several Tomahawk ground attack missiles targeting the Houthi rebels’ radar facility.
This attack was a follow-up attack regarding a day following the US and British forces carried out large-scale bombings on dozens of Houthi facilities in Yemen on the 11th to stop Houthi rebels who were attacking merchant ships passing through the Red Sea.
After the previous large-scale airstrike, US President Joe Biden said in a statement released on the 11th, “This targeted airstrike is a clear message that the United States and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or threats to freedom of navigation by hostile actors.” He emphasized.
In addition, he warned that if the Houthi rebels continued their attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, “we will definitely take further action.”
Houthi rebels called the US and British airstrikes ‘barbaric’ and vowed revenge.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a statement on the 12th, calling attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea region “unacceptable,” threatening the safety of international supply chains and having a negative impact on the global economy and humanitarian situation. I pointed out that there is.
Guterres also called for the implementation of a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate halt to Houthi attacks on civilian commercial ships.
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