US military says second nighttime attack ‘designed to degrade the Houthis’ ability to attack maritime vessels’
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The US has carried out an additional strike against Yemen’s Houthi forces after President Joe Biden’s administration vowed to protect shipping in the Red Sea.
The latest strike, which the US said targeted a radar site early on Saturday local time, came a day after dozens of American and British strikes on the Iran-backed group’s facilities, Reuters reports.
Five people were reported killed and six injured in the US and the UK air and missile strikes in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen late on Thursday. The US president, Joe Biden, described the strikes as a “success” and warned that the US would continue action if the Iran-backed group continued “this outrageous behaviour”. A bipartisan chorus of US lawmakers have assailed Biden for failing to seek congressional approval for the strikes.
At least 23,708 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza since the war there began, according to the latest figures by the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry on Friday. More than 151 Palestinians had been killed and 248 injured in Gaza in the previous 24 hours, it said.
Yemen’s Houthis threatened retaliation and tens of thousands people took to the streets of the country’s capital after Thursday’s late-night bombing. A Houthi military spokesperson accused “the American-British enemy” of launching brutal aggression “as part of its support for the continuation of Israeli crime in Gaza”. The intervention “will not go unanswered and unpunished”, he said. On Thursday, the Houthis’ leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, said they would respond with more attacks on western shipping if Yemen was struck. Yemen’s internationally recognised government has said it holds Houthis “responsible for dragging the country into a military confrontation” in the Red Sea.
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2024-01-13 02:24:00
Original from www.theguardian.com
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