US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on X, formerly Twitter, that it struck a radar site in Yemen early on Saturday used by Houthis, a term Western states use to refer to the Yemeni government in Sana’a.
“At 3:45 a.m. (Sana’a time) on Jan 13., U.S. forces conducted a strike against a Houthi radar site in Yemen. This strike was conducted by the USS Carney (DDG 64) using Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles”, CENTCOM said on its X account on Saturday.
Yemeni media confirmed the strike and said it targeted Sana’a.
The attack came a day after joint US-UK assaults on Yemen which targeted several cities including the capital Sana’a. Canada, Bahrain, Australia and the Netherlands supported the early Friday strikes which US President Joe Biden said “were a direct response to” Yemeni attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
CENTCOM said in its X post that the latest US strike was “a follow-on action on a specific military target associated with strikes taken on Jan. 12 designed to degrade the Houthi’s ability to attack maritime vessels, including commercial vessels.”
On Friday, the Yemeni army spokesman issued a statement, saying that the US and the UK “bear full responsibility for the criminal aggression”.
Yahya Saree said that the aggression will not go unpunished and unanswered, and added that five Yemeni armed forces were killed in the joint strikes by Washington and London on Friday.
Yemen also said that the aggression was unjustified, because the Yemeni attacks in the Red Sea only targeted Israeli-linked ships and there was no threat to other vessels.
Despite the Western strikes, Yemen has promised to continue its attacks on Israeli-linked vessels until the regime stops its crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Yemen has already warned the US against any hostile act on Yemeni soil ever since Washington announced an international coalition in December to confront operations against Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea.
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