The United States announced that it had carried out a strike against the Yemeni Houthi rebels this Saturday. An operation which comes the day after the American and British bombings against places of the movement which threaten maritime traffic in the Red Sea.
Washington announced Friday evening that it had carried out a strike against the Yemeni Houthi rebels, the day after American and British bombings against sites of this movement accused of threatening international maritime traffic in the Red Sea. “American forces carried out a strike against a radar site in Yemen” around 3:45 a.m. local time on Saturday (00:45 GMT), the United States Central Military Command (Centcom) reported in a statement.
The Houthi rebel channel al-Masirah earlier reported American strikes on at least one site in the capital Sanaa. In the context of the war between Israel and Hamas, tension has risen in the Red Sea in recent weeks with Houthi attacks targeting maritime traffic in solidarity with the Gaza Strip.
The fear of regional spillover
Early Friday, American and British strikes targeted military sites held by the Houthis, who control large areas of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, reigniting fears of a regional spillover of the war in Gaza ahead of the attack without precedent was retained by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7.
US President Joe Biden had threatened the Houthis with further strikes on rebel positions if the latter did not stop their firing in the Red Sea. However, after the British and American strikes on Friday, the Houthis fired “at least one missile” which, however, did not hit any ships, the American army indicated before the strikes on Saturday morning.