Sanaa, March 9 (RHC)-- The Yemeni military says it has targeted a U.S. vessel and several destroyers with naval missiles and drones in the Red Sea in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, amid the Israeli regime’s U.S.-backed genocidal war on the besieged territory.
Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, said in a video statement on Saturday that Yemeni forces implemented “two qualitative military operations” targeting a ship and a number of American warship destroyers in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden with a “number of naval missiles and 37 drones.”
“The first operation targeted the American ship ‘Propel Fortune’ in the Gulf of Aden with a number of suitable naval missiles, while the second operation targeted a number of US destroyers in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with 37 drones,” Saree said. “The two operations successfully achieved their goals,” he added.
The spokesman also thanked Yemeni people for their two million-strong demonstrations on Friday in the capital Sana’a and in other governorates and districts in confirmation of their firm position in support of the Palestinian people.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces will continue to carry out their military operations in the Red and Arab Sea until the aggression stops and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted,” Saree underlined.
Earlier on Saturday, top Yemeni official Mohammed Ali al-Houthi warned the US against the continuation of its hostile moves in the Red Sea, saying the Yemeni Armed Forces are fully aware of the “loopholes” of American aircraft operations in the strategic waterway.
“The heroes in the armed forces know about the loopholes that can be exploited while the take-off or landing of American aircraft on the ships,” Houthi wrote in an Arabic-language post on his X social media account on Saturday. “I advise the United States and its allies to issue a decision not to fly at all.”
Speaking in a weekly televised address on Thursday, leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said the United States is the main culprit in the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the silence of the international community on the regime’s crimes is a source of shame.
Yemen has openly supported Palestine’s struggle against Israel since the occupying regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7 after the territory’s Palestinian resistance movements carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.
The Yemeni Armed Forces have carried out retaliatory strikes against the Israeli regime’s interests in the Red Sea. The maritime attacks have forced some of the world’s biggest shipping and oil companies to suspend transit through one of the world’s most important maritime trade routes.
Tankers are instead adding thousands of miles to international shipping routes by sailing around the continent of Africa rather than going through the Suez Canal.
The maritime attacks have forced some of the world’s biggest shipping and oil companies to suspend transit through one of the world’s most important maritime trade routes.
Tankers are instead adding thousands of miles to international shipping routes by sailing around the continent of Africa rather than going through the Suez Canal.
