Yemen’s Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam said the country would continue to defend itself after several US strikes targeted facilities in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday.
The US military said it carried out strikes against Houthi targets in Sanaa and coastal locations in Yemen on Monday and Tuesday.
“On December 30 and 31, US Navy ships and aircraft targeted a Houthi command and control facility and advanced conventional weapons (ACW) production and storage facilities that included missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),” US Army Central Command said in. a post on X, formerly Twitter.
He said the objects that were hit had been used in attacks against US Navy warships and merchant ships in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. US Navy and Air Force jets also destroyed a Houthi coastal radar site, seven cruise missiles and a UAV over the Red Sea, he said.
The Iran-backed militant group in Yemen has been attacking merchant ships in the Red Sea for more than a year in an attempt to enforce a naval blockade on Israel, saying it is acting in solidarity with the Palestinians in Israel’s year-long war in Gaza.
The Houthis’ media office said on Tuesday that 10 airstrikes hit the May 22 facility in Sanaa’s northern Thurah district and two more hit the Aradi facility, which houses the rebels’ Ministry of Defense in central Sanaa.
Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the Houthi’s chief negotiator and spokesman, called the attacks “a grave violation of the sovereignty of an independent state.”
