The photo shows the US-UK aggression on Yemen's capital city of Sana'a on October 17, 2024. (Via social media)

Sanaa, October 18 (RHC)-- U.S. and British warplanes have bombed Yemen's capital city of Sana'a and several other areas, amid the country’s solidarity with the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and the Lebanese nation in the face of Israel's brutal aggression.

Yemen's al-Masirah television network said the U.S.-British aggression targeted the al-Hafa and Jirban areas in the north and south of the capital with six airstrikes on Thursday morning.  The television network also said the warplanes struck the northwestern Yemeni city of Sa'ada as well as the Kahlan and al-Abla areas east of the city.

The U.S. military has used "B-2 stealth bombers for the 1st time in airstrikes on Yemen,” the television network said.  Yemen's official Saba Net news agency reported that U.S.-British aggression aircraft launched 15 raids on the capital Sana'a and the Sa’ada province.

The agency cited a security source as saying that the aircraft targeted with six raids the areas in the north and south of the capital, and launched nine raids in Sa'ada.

A U.S. defense official confirmed to the CNN that the strikes were conducted using the B-2 bomber, which is usually deployed to strike areas heavily defended by air defense systems.  The B-2 is a much larger platform than the fighter jets that have been used so far to target Yemeni facilities and weapons, and is capable of carrying a far heavier load of bombs, the CNN reported.

Nasreddin Amer, Deputy Minister of Information in the Sana'a-based administration, censured the American and British aggression, saying, “The position of the Yemeni nation toward Palestine and Lebanon will not change with these attacks.”

Amer stressed that the United States will “pay the price” of the dawn aggression against Yemen.  Earlier on Tuesday, U.S. and British forces conducted four airstrikes on the al-Luhayyah district in Hudaydah Province, in western Yemen.  The day earlier, they carried out two airstrikes on the al-Salif district in western Hudaydah.

Yemenis have declared their open support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the territory’s Palestinian resistance movements carried out surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the occupying entity.

The Yemeni Armed Forces have said they will not stop their attacks until unrelenting Israeli ground and aerial offensives in Gaza end.

So far, Israel has killed at least 42,409 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 99,153 others in Gaza. The regime has also intensified its deadly attacks against Lebanon over the past year, killing upwards of 2,300 Lebanese people.