According to the news of the United States ** Command, from the night of the 24th to the early morning of the 25th local time, the United States and Britain airstrikes 18 military targets of the Houthis in Yemen. The Houthis said they had been hit by a total of 23 airstrikes in Sana'a, Hajjah and Taiz provinces, as well as Yemen's capital, Sana'a.
According to the CCTV news client, this is the fourth joint operation taken by the United States and the United Kingdom against the Houthis since January 12. In a joint statement, the two countries said they had launched airstrikes on 18 Houthi targets in eight locations in Yemen, including underground and missile storage facilities, air defense systems, radars and one
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the airstrikes were aimed at further weakening the Houthis' military capabilities.
Pesticide factory in a residential area that was attacked. **CCTV Military.
For the first time, civilian targets in Yemen were hit by US and British air strikes.
The Houthis said that the US and British airstrikes hit civilian facilities in Sana'a, and a pesticide factory in western Sana'a was hit by three airstrikes, causing serious damage and involving some surrounding residential buildings, "the whole neighborhood is in a state of panic."
Shortly after the new Palestinian-Israeli conflict erupted on October 7 last year, Houthis began attacking "Israeli-linked" ships in the Red Sea waters as a sign of "support for Palestine." Since January 12 this year, the United States and the United Kingdom have launched successive airstrikes on Houthi targets, killing and injuring many people.
Both the United States and Britain and the Houthis have said that all the targets of the airstrikes are military targets. However, in the air raid in the early morning of the 25th, multiple civilian targets were attacked for the first time. This has led to fears that the United States and Britain will expand the scope of their air strikes to target civilian facilities and infrastructure, which will further devastate the local economy and deepen the humanitarian catastrophe.
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Houthi attack on an American cargo ship".
The U.S. Command said in a statement on February 26 that on the evening of the 24th, Yemen's Sanaa time, Yemen's Houthi rebels launched an anti-ship missile, which may have targeted a U.S.-flagged, U.S.-owned and operated fuel and chemical carrier "Torm Saul" in the Gulf of Aden, Yemen. The U.S. Command said the missile did not hit the freighter but was on the water, and there was no damage to the crew or hull.
In addition, the U.S. ** Command also said that on the evening of the 24th Sana'a time, Yemen, the U.S. military shot down two one-way attack drones in the southern part of the Red Sea, and the third drone crashed due to a malfunction.
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According to previous reports, in recent days, a number of American and British cargo ships sailing in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden have been attacked by Houthi forces. On the 18th of this month, the Houthis attacked the British freighter "Rubimar" sailing in the Gulf of Aden with missiles, causing serious damage to the ship and the evacuation of the crew. On the 19th, the Houthis also claimed to have hit two American cargo ships with missiles. On the 22nd, the Palau-flagged freighter "Aland", owned by a British company, was attacked by two Houthi missiles, and one crew member was slightly injured.
On the 25th, the Houthis issued their latest statement saying that they had launched a strike on the USS Tholm Saul, a US-flagged US-owned and operated fuel and chemical carrier in the Gulf of Aden, firing a series of missiles. The statement did not disclose details such as timing.
In addition, the cargo ship "Rubimar", which was attacked by the Houthis on the 18th of this month, has formed an oil belt about 30 kilometers long on the sea surface due to serious damage. The U.S. ** Command said in a statement released on the 24th that the "Rubimar" cargo ship was carrying more than 410,000 tons of fertilizer, which is still slowly entering the water. There are concerns that the fertilizer leak on the Rubimar will cause environmental pollution.
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