Yemen Monitor/ Newsroom
The Houthi group in Yemen announced on Friday that the US and Britain had carried out three airstrikes on the western Yemeni governorate of Hodeidah.
Al-Masirah TV channel, a Houthi mouthpiece, reported in a breaking news on Telegram that “a US-British aggression targeted Ras Issa area in Al-Salif district of Hodeidah governorate with three airstrikes.”
The channel did not elaborate on the results of the targeting, and there was no immediate comment from the US or British sides on the matter.
On Thursday, the group said that US-British coalition aircraft had carried out two airstrikes on Al-Jubana area in the same governorate.
On July 20, Israel launched its first airstrike on Hodeidah port, which is under Houthi control, a day after the armed group claimed responsibility for a drone attack that killed one person in Tel Aviv.
Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said on Thursday that the “inevitable response” to the Israeli strike that targeted fuel tanks in the port of Hodeidah in western Yemen is “coming.”
He indicated that the number of ships targeted by his group since November has reached 177.
Since the end of last year, the Houthis have been targeting commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and recently expanded their operations to the Indian Ocean. They said they are targeting ships linked to Israel, which is waging a brutal attack on Gaza Strip. But the Yemeni government and experts say that the Houthis’ goals are domestic to escape internal crises and improve their image in the region.
In response, the US and Britain have been launching airstrikes against the Iranian-backed Houthi militants since January 11. As a result, the Houthis announced the expansion of their operations to include US and British ships.
Since November and until early July, the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) recorded more than 200 attacks on US commercial or military ships off the coast of Yemen, including nearly 100 attacks since the start of US airstrikes on the Yemeni mainland.
