US, UK strike Houthi targets in Yemen — report

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 23. US and UK forces
carried out strikes at several Houthi targets in Yemen, Trend reports.

According to the officials, the US and the UK used naval-based
Tomahawk missiles and jet planes to destroy Houthi warehouses and
missile launchers.

This is the second time that the two allies carry out
coordinated strikes at Houthi targets, the report points out.

According to Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera, US and UK armed forces
attacked the Al-Daylami Houthi military base in Sana, as well as
other facilities in Taiz, Hajjah, Al Hudaydah and Al Bayda
provinces. An unnamed Houthi representative told Al Jazeera that
these strikes have become the most massive since January 12, when
the US and the UK attacked Yemeni territory for the first time.

According to Al Hadath, the allies carried out at least 35
strikes at Houthi targets. Three high-ranking Houthi
representatives were killed in the attack, Al Hadath sources
said.

Following the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in
the Gaza Strip, the Houthis warned that they would launch strikes
on Israeli territory while barring ships associated with the Jewish
state from passing through the waters of the Red Sea and the Bab
el-Mandeb Strait until Tel Aviv ceased its military operation
against Palestinian radical group Hamas in the embattled enclave.
According to the US Defense Department’s Central Command’s
(CENTCOM) estimates, the Yemeni rebel group has attacked more than
20 vessels and civilian ships in the Red Sea since
mid-November.

On January 12, US and British aircraft, ships and submarines for
the first time attacked targets belonging to the Ansar Allah
movement in a number of Yemeni cities, including Sana’a and
Hodeidah. US President Joe Biden claimed that the attack came in
direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. The
US administration said that the strikes targeted the launch sites
of rockets and unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as radar stations
belonging to the Houthi rebels. Since then, the United States has
been regularly striking Houthi missile launchers in Yemen.
Following the January 12 operation, the United Kingdom said it was
not planning to deliver more strikes.