The armed forces of America targeted, for the fourth time in a period of less than a week, positions in the territories controlled by Houthi in Yemen, proceeding Wednesday night into Thursday with ground strikes against fourteen missiles of the Iran-proximate rebels, who have been attacking merchant ships in the Red Sea for weeks.
The new US strikes in the Middle East, which appears to be edging ever closer to a flare-up, were announced hours after Washington again designated Yemeni rebels as a “terrorist” entity.which for their part continue to target merchant ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
According to Al-Masira, a television network close to the rebels, the strikes, which according to it were “American-British”, took place in the provinces of “Hodayda, Taiz, Dhamar, Al Bayda and Saada”.
Hodaida resident Hani Kagend, 44, said he heard a loud bang “around 02:16 local time” today, the Athens News Agency reported, citing AFP and Reuters, adding that the blast occurred in the eastern part of the city. , near the airport.
At around 01:00 (GMT), the US armed forces “conducted strikes against 14 Iranian-backed Houthi missiles ready to be launched from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen”, said the joint command of the US armed forces which is responsible for its area Middle East (CENTCOM, “central command”) via X (formerly Twitter).
“These missiles on launch pads posed an immediate threat to commercial and US naval vessels in the area,” as they “could be launched at any time,” the statement continued, which “prompted the U.S. military to exercise the their right and obligation to defend themselves”.
“We will continue to take action to protect the lives of innocent sailors,” CENTCOM chief Gen. Michael Eric Kurila said in a statement.
A Houthi official, for his part, emphasized in his statements to Al Masira that the movement will “continue to target ships heading to ports in occupied Palestine, regardless of any US-British attacks in their attempt to stop us.”
Off Yemen's Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, the rebels, who have been fighting Yemen's internationally recognized government for about a decade and a half, are launching attacks on ships they believe are linked to Israel.
They say they are carrying out these attacks as a sign of “solidarity” with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, an enclave that has been besieged and pounded by Israel's military since Hamas' unprecedented attack on southern sectors of the Israeli territory on October 7.
The proliferation of Houthi attacks has led to American and British bombing in recent days. The third in a row took place the day before yesterday Tuesday targeting 4 rebel missiles on the ground.
Last month, the US established a multinational naval coalition to protect international shipping in the Red Sea, critical sea route through which about 12% of world trade passes.
Major shipping companies have decided to suspend their ships' routes through the Red Sea until further notice because of the attacks.
US forces and those of their allies in the region have repeatedly intercepted and destroyed missiles and drones launched from Yemen, where the Ansarallah movement, or Houthis as it is better known by the family name of its leaders, controls much of the country. including the capital Sanaa.
Source: News Beast
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