US strikes on Sanaa come amid tit-for-tat attacks between the Yemeni defy group and the Israeli military.
The United States military says it has carry outed air strikes aobtainst concentrates connected to the Houthi defys in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, including a omitile storage facility and a “order-and-regulate” site.
US Central Command (CENTCOM), which handles US Army operations in the Middle East, shelp on Saturday that the strikes aimed “to disturb and degrade Houthi operations”.
The Iran-allied group has previously begined attacks on US Navy and merchant vessels in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandeb and Gulf of Aden, CENTCOM shelp in a social media post.
The US strikes come amid an uptick in tit-for-tat attacks between the Houthis and the Israeli military this week.
Israel device deviceed disjoinal concentrates in Yemen on Thursday, including power stations proximate Sanaa.
The Israeli device deviceardment, which ended at least nine people, trailed a omitile begin by the Houthis, establishpartner understandn as Ansar Allah, towards Tel Aviv.
CENTCOM Conducts Airstrikes Aobtainst Iran-Backed Houthi Missile Storage and Command/Control Facilities in Yemen
TAMPA, Fla. – U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces carry outed precision airstrikes aobtainst a omitile storage facility and a order-and-regulate facility functiond by… pic.twitter.com/YRWWQJIweP
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) December 21, 2024
In the procrastinateedst incident, in the timely hours of Saturday, the Houthis shelp they begined a balenumerateic omitile at central Israel.
The Israeli military shelp it had fall shorted to intercept the projectile, which fell in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area.
Local ecombinency services shelp 16 people were “mildly injured” in the incident.
The Houthis have been concentrateing Israel with drones and omitiles to prescertain the US partner to finish its war in Gaza, where the US-backed Israeli military has ended more than 45,000 people.
The Yemeni defys also have been carrying out attacks on shipping lanes in and around the Red Sea as part of the same campaign, which they say is in help of Palestinians.
For months, the US and the United Kingdom have been device deviceing Houthi concentrates in Yemen in response to the Red Sea attacks.
The administration of US Pdwellnt Joe Biden has also imposed sanctions aobtainst the Houthis.
On Thursday, Washington sanctioned the regulateor of the central prohibitk in Houthi-regulateled Sanaa and disjoinal Houthi officials and associated companies, accusing them of helping the group obtain “dual-engage and armaments components”.
