Mike Glenn
U.S. Navy warships and aircraft launched multiple strikes against Houthi rebel targets inside Yemen that were being used to attack both civilian merchant and military vessels operating in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, officials with U.S. Central Command said Tuesday.
The U.S. targeted a command-and-control facility along with weapons production factories and warehouses filled with missiles and drones that were under the control of Iran-backed Houthi forces in the capital, Sanaa, and along the coast. U.S. Navy and Air Force aircraft also knocked out a radar site and seven missiles and drones operating over the Red Sea, officials said.
“The strikes are part of [U.S. Central Command’s] effort to degrade Iran-backed Houthi efforts to threaten regional partners and military and merchant vessels in the region,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
The Houthis’ media office said Tuesday that 10 airstrikes hit a facility in Sanaa’s northern Thurah district and two more hit a second facility that houses the rebels’ defense ministry in central Sanaa, The Associated Press reported. Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the Houthi chief negotiator and spokesman, called the strikes “a gross violation of the sovereignty of an independent state.”
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