Yemen’s Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam said the country would continue to defend itself after several US strikes targeting facilities in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday.
The US military said it carried out strikes against Houthi targets in Sanaa and coastal areas of Yemen on Monday and Tuesday.
“On December 30 and 31, U.S. Navy ships and aircraft targeted a Houthi command and control facility as well as advanced conventional weapons (ACW) production and storage facilities, which included missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),” the U.S. Army Central Command said in a statement. a publication on X, formerly Twitter.
It said the affected facilities had been used in attacks on U.S. Navy warships and merchant ships in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. US Navy and Air Force aircraft also destroyed a Houthi coastal radar site, seven cruise missiles and a drone over the Red Sea, the statement said.
The Iranian-backed militant group in Yemen has been attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea for more than a year in an attempt to impose a naval blockade on Israel, saying it is acting in solidarity with Palestinians in the war of a year that Israel is leading in Gaza.
The Houthi media office said Tuesday that 10 airstrikes hit the May 22 facility in Thurah district, north of Sanaa, and two more hit the Aradi facility, which houses the Ministry of Defense. Defending rebels in central Sanaa.
Mohammed Abdul-Salam, chief negotiator and spokesperson for the Houthis, called the strikes “a blatant violation of the sovereignty of an independent state.”
