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Yemen attacks US aircraft carrier after deadly strikes
Yemen’s military spokesman Yahya Saree announced the attack on the Eisenhower carrier on Friday, Reuters reported.
Six US and British strikes have killed 16 people and wounded 42, including civilians, Saree said in a televised statement.
A US defense official told Reuters they were not aware of any attack on the Eisenhower.
“The American-British aggression will not prevent us from continuing our military operations in support of Palestine,” Houthi official Mohammed al-Bukhaiti said on X, warning that the country would “meet escalation with escalation”.
The US Central Command said on X that attacks against 13 Houthi targets had “successfully destroyed” eight uncrewed aerial vehicles, or drones, in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and over the Red Sea.
The British Ministry of Defence said Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4s conducted attacks on Hodeidah and further south in Ghulayfiqah. It described targets as “buildings identified as housing drone ground control facilities and providing storage for very long-range drones, as well as surface-to-air weapons”.
The Houthi movement has emerged as a strong supporter of Palestinians in Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, which has killed more than 36,000 people.
The group has launched repeated drone and missile attacks on Israeli-related ships in the Red Sea, the Bab al-Mandeb strait, and the Gulf of Aden since November, demanding that Israel end the war.
Iran condemned the US-UK strikes as “violations of Yemen’s sovereignty and territorial integrity…, international laws and human rights”, Iranian state media reported.
“The aggressor US and British governments are responsible for the consequences of these crimes against the Yemeni people,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said.