The Yemen Houthis said on Monday, on Monday, that ten strikes attributed to the United States had targeted the capital Sanaa and its surroundings when Washington is carrying out an almost daily bombing campaign aimed at these pro-Iranian rebels.
According to the rebels news agency, Saba, “two strikes from the American enemy aimed at rue Arbaeen” in Sanaa and “a strike targeted the road to the airport”. Saba had already reported two previous strikes allocated to “American attack” and seven other strikes around the capital.
“Fourteen citizens were injured in the American attack on rue d’Arbaeen in [le quartier de] Saawan “of the capital, said Saba, quoting the Ministry of Health of the Houthie Administration.
Early on Monday, the AFP correspondent heard violent explosions in the capital, controlled by the Houthis since 2014.
At the end of April, strikes attributed to the Americans on Sanaa had left at least eight dead and injured, according to the rebels.
Strikes have also been carried out in the regions of Marib (Center), Saadah, Bastion of Houthis, and Jaouf, in northern Yemen, according to the same source, attributing them to American forces.
The Houthis, which are part of Iran’s “resistance axis” against Israel and the United States, say they are in solidarity with the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, devastated by a military campaign launched by Israel after the Hamas-underwater attack on October 7, 2023.
-Since January 2024, the American army has been attacking the positions of the Houthis to try to end their missile and drone attacks against Israel and the cargo ships using the Red Sea.
The attacks of the Houthis prevented the ships from going through the Suez Canal, an essential artery where 12% of world maritime traffic normally pass. Consequently, many companies had to make expensive detours by southern Africa.
Since the entry according to President Donald Trump in January, American air raids have intensified, with almost daily strikes in last month.
The US military has announced that it has struck, since mid-March, more than 1000 targets in Yemen.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has promised reprisals against the Houthi rebels of Yemen and Iran after the firing of a missile having affected, for the first time, the area of Ben-Gourion airport, near Tel-Aviv, where air traffic was briefly suspended.
Yemen Houthi rebels announced later on Sunday that they would continue to “target Israeli airports” and called on airlines to “cancel their flights” to Israel.
