The US and the UK launched in the first hours of Friday an aggression on several areas across Yemen, including the capital Sanaa.
Yemen’s SABA news agency said the US and the UK staged multiple airstrikes on Sanaa, along with Saada city, Dhamar city, and Hodeidah governate.
US-UK aggression on Saanaa
Yemeni sources reported that the aggression targeted Al-Dailami Air Base north of the capital, Sana’a, the vicinity of Hodeidah Airport and areas in Zabid District, as well as Kahlan Camp, east of the city of Saada. The aggression also targeted the airport of the Abs District in Hajjah Governorate.
In Taiz, the British aggression targeted Taiz Airport and the 22nd Brigade camp in the Taiziyah District.
The aggression on Hodeidah
US, UK Remarks
US President Joe Biden said the attacks targeted “a number of targets in Yemen used by Houthi rebels to endanger freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most vital waterways,” referring to pro-Palestine operations staged by the Yemeni revolutionaries against Israeli ships in the Red Sea in a bid to press the Zionist entity to end its brutal aggression on Gaza.
In a statement shared by the White House, he said they were carried out “together with the United Kingdom and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands”.
“These targeted strikes are a clear message that the United States and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or allow hostile actors to imperil freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most critical commercial routes,” he said.
“I will not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international commerce as necessary.”
For his part, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed that the Royal Air Force, alongside US forces, and with “non-operational support” from the Netherlands, Canada and Bahrain, carried out the attacks on Houthi fighters in Yemen, as quoted by Reuters news agency.
Yemeni Response: US, UK “Will Regret”
Member of the politburo of Ansarullah revolutionary movement in Yemen Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti warned the US and UK that they will “regret” attacking Yemen, stressing that the aggression “the greatest folly in their history”.
The world, he said, was now witnessing a “unique war in which those supporting “right and those who are wrong can be clearly identified.
America and Britain made a mistake in launching the war on Yemen because they did not benefit from their previous experiences.
Had it not been for Bush’s foolishness in pushing Ali Saleh to attack us in Saada in 2004, the Yemeni people would not have launched the 2014…
— محمد البخيتي(Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti) (@M_N_Albukhaiti) January 12, 2024
Yemeni Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Al-Ezzi warned of severe retaliation against the US and UK for bombing targets in Yemen.
“Our country was subjected to a massive aggressive attack by American and British ships, submarines and warplanes, and they will have to prepare to pay a heavy price and bear all the dire consequences of this blatant aggression,” he said, as reported by Al-Mayadeen news network.
Fadl AbuTalib, another member of Ansarullah politburo, also wrote on X that the group is “fully prepared to fight any battle or confrontation” with the US and UK.
On his part, Nasreddin Amer, Deputy Information Secretary of Ansarullah, stressed that the group would respond forcefully to the US-UK aggression.
“Any strike against us will be responded to, absolutely, without the slightest doubt, with all force and determination, and the region will be on the verge of escalation, the end of which no one knows,” Amer told Newsweek on Thursday as reports first emerged of the strikes.
“Any strike against us has no justification, as it is only support for Israel to continue killing the oppressed Palestinian people,” he added.
UNSC Motion
The aggression comes 24 hours after UN motion urged the Yemeni revolutionaries, referred to as Houthis, to end attacks in the Red Sea.
Eleven members of the UN Security Council voted yesterday in favor of a measure calling on the Houthis to “immediately cease all attacks” in the Red Sea, “which impede global commerce and navigational rights and freedoms as well as regional peace”.
The US-UK aggression on Saada
Source: Al-Manar English Website
