“This is the fifth time we have targeted the aircraft carrier since it entered the Red Sea,” Yahya Sarea, Houthi military spokesman, emphasized in a statement broadcast on al-Masirah television channel by the forces. This force operates, according to Xinhua News Agency. Houthi also announced that the new attack lasted up to 9 hours.
US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman
“The campaign successfully achieved its goal and forced the aircraft carrier to leave the operating area and run to the northern tip of the Red Sea,” Mr. Sarea emphasized. The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was supposed to arrive in the Red Sea last month.
Mr. Sarea also said the new attack was intended to support Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and respond to the latest air strikes by the US, UK and Israel on Houthi locations in northern Yemen on January 10. He announced that the Houthis will launch more attacks on Israel until Israel stops attacking and no longer besieges Gaza.
There is currently no information on the reaction of the US, UK and Israel to the Houthi statement.
On the afternoon of January 10, Israel announced that it had conducted a joint airstrike with the US-led naval coalition, targeting a power plant and two ports in Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, Amran province and the city of Sanaa. Hodeidah port in the Red Sea. That attack left one person dead and nine injured, according to Al-Masirah.
Since November 2023, the Houthis have conducted missile and drone attacks on Israel, disrupting “Israeli-related” shipping activities in the Red Sea to show solidarity with the Palestinians after Hamas – Israel conflict.
Yemeni government forces repel Houthi attack?
Meanwhile, Yemeni government forces announced on January 11 that they had repelled a number of Houthi attacks on many fronts, causing “significant casualties and material losses to this group”, according to Xinhua. commune.
Specifically, the Yemeni Ministry of Defense announced that government forces “successfully counterattacked and broke up many Houthi attacks in Marib, Al-Jawf and Taiz provinces in the past 24 hours”.
In Marib, military forces defended against attacks on the northwest front, where Houthi members used artillery, snipers and drones.
A local military official confirmed that “both warring factions have had a number of deaths in the past 24 hours due to sporadic fighting taking place in various areas of Yemen”.
The Houthis have controlled much of northern Yemen since late 2014, when they forced the internationally recognized Yemeni government to leave the capital Sanaa. Since then, Yemen has been caught up in a civil war between government forces and the Houthis.
