One killed, several injured in joint US, UK, Israeli airstrikes on Yemen

At least one person has been killed and nine others sustained injuries when US, British and Israeli warplanes carried out a string of airstrikes against various targets across Yemen.

Yemen’s al-Masirah television channel reported that a person was killed and six others were wounded when the joint aerial raids targeted the Red Sea port of Ras Issa in the strategic western province of Hudaydah early on Saturday.

Three other people were injured in attacks on a power station in the Hezyaz neighborhood, south of the capital Sana’a.

A series of airstrikes also hit the Hudaydah port and northern ‘Amran province, al-Masirah TV noted.

The US-British coalition has not commented on the strikes, but the Israeli military announced in a statement that its warplanes had targeted a number of sites on the western Yemeni coast and inland Yemen.

Earlier on Friday, the US, Britain and the Israeli regime announced the launch of their first joint aggression against Yemen.

Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesman for the Yemeni army, later said in a televised statement that Yemen’s armed forces had conducted retaliatory strikes against an American aircraft carrier and several other US warships in response to Washington’s support for the Israeli regime’s war of genocide against the Gaza Strip.

In a statement on Friday, the forces said they targeted the vessels, including the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman, in the northern tip of the Red Sea over the previous 48 hours, using cruise missiles and explosive-laden drones.

"The operation .. succeeded in thwarting a new aerial attack launched against our nation from the carrier," said the statement, adding, "The attack forced the carrier and its accompanying warships to withdraw from the northern Red Sea region." 

Following Israel's first joint airstrike with the US and the UK, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Yemen was "paying and will continue to pay a heavy price”.

Israeli minister of military affairs Israel Katz, who observed the aerial assault from the air force command center in Tel Aviv, asserted, “The port of Hudaydah is paralyzed, and the Ras Issa port is ablaze.”

Large parts of Sana’a witnessed power outages after the airstrikes.

Iran slams new US, UK aggression on Yemen

Iran has strongly condemned the new US and UK aggression in Yemen

Houthi: Zionists are clear example of barbarity

Mohammad Ali al-Houthi, a member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, strongly condemned the US-British-Israeli joint airstrikes on Yemen, describing Israeli officials as a clear example of barbarity and cruelty.

“Your (Israeli authorities’) contradictory and conflicting statements would not scare us. On the contrary, they will make Yemeni heroes more determined to continue supporting Gaza and destroying your criminal regime,” Houthi stated.

"The attacks on Yemen due to its support for Gaza have strengthened the faith and willpower of our people in the fight against terrorism and genocide.”

Hamas denounces joint airstrikes

Hamas strongly condemned the joint attacks on civilian infrastructure in the provinces of ‘Amran, Hudaydah and Sana’a as a blatant violation of international law, an attack on Yemen’s sovereignty, and a threat to regional security.

The airstrikes on Yemen, it said, prove the full complicity of the United States and Britain in the Zionist regime’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza.

The targeting of Yemeni civilians, especially the gathering at al-Sabeen Square in Sana’a which was held to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, constitutes a war crime, the Palestinian resistance group stated.

“Hamas reiterates its full solidarity with the Yemeni nation, the country’s armed forces and the Ansarullah movement, and appreciates their efforts in support of Palestine,” the statement read.

US, UK warplanes launch fresh attacks on Yemen in support of Israel

The US and Britain carry out fresh aerial assaults on Yemen as the Arab country continues its retaliatory operations against the Israeli regime.

The resistance group also commended the Yemeni retaliatory operations against Israeli positions as powerful and effective, calling upon all Arab and Muslim countries to unite and confront the regime’s acts of terror and aggression against Palestinian and Yemeni peoples.

Hamas urged Muslim countries to take decisive action against the threats of the Tel Aviv regime and its partners.

Yemenis have been hitting Israeli and American targets in support of Palestinians in Gaza since Israel launched its devastating war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, and in response to the American-British aggression on their homeland.

The Yemeni army has been also targeting ships linked to Israel, the United States, or the United Kingdom to force an end to the Tel Aviv regime’s brutal war on Gaza.

The operations have effectively shut down the Eilat port south of the occupied territories, causing significant economic setbacks for the Israelis.

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

Israel has killed more than 46,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured nearly 110,000 other individuals in Gaza since the onset of the war.

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