Demonstration on Friday in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, in response to the first round of attacks against the Houthi rebels led by the United States and the United Kingdom. HOUTHI MEDIA CENTER / Portal
Washington aims to limit the rebels' ability to attack merchant ships crossing the Red Sea.
The American army carried out a series of additional strikes against the Houthis in Yemen on Friday, January 12, a day after it launched an initial salvo of attacks on nearly 30 locations in this country in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. The United States wants to limit the rebels' ability to attack merchant ships crossing the Red Sea. Yemeni rebel broadcaster al-Masirah confirmed these new attacks on Saturday morning. These were carried out by the warship USS Carney with Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Early Friday, American and British strikes targeted military sites belonging to the Houthis, who control large areas of Yemen including the capital Sanaa, raising fears of a regional spillover of the war in Gaza sparked by the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7th.
US President Joe Biden had threatened the Houthis with further attacks on rebel positions if they did not stop firing in the Red Sea. Houthi rebels have threatened to retaliate against attacks by the United States and United Kingdom in Yemen by attacking the interests of those two countries, which are now considered “legitimate targets.” However, the Houthis fired “at least one missile” after the British and American attacks on Friday, but it did not hit any ships, the US army said before the attacks on Saturday morning.