Yemeni Shiite Houthi rebels have attacked with missiles a ship from the United States and another from the United Kingdom“with direct impact”in the Red Sea, in retaliation for the bombings of those two countries against this pro-Iranian group to ensure navigation in that sea route.

The Houthi military spokesman, Yehya Sarea, assured this Tuesday in a statement that the two ships are the “American ship ‘Star Nasia'” and the “British ‘Morning Tide’‘”. These “were attacked with appropriate naval missiles” and he has noted that “the hits were precise and direct”, which has not been confirmed by American or British sources.

In his new statement, the Houthi spokesperson has not lowered the threatening tone towards navigation in the Red Sea, while reiterating that the attacks “will continue in response to the oppression of the Palestinian people and the American-British aggression against our country.” “The Yemeni armed forces (as the Houthis define themselves) will carry out higher quality military operations against all hostile American and British targets in the Red and Arabian Seas,” he said.

These attacks, he stated, “are framed within the legitimate right to respond to the aggression and in defense of beloved Yemen and its people in struggle.” Likewise, he has insisted that the Houthis “will continue their military operations (…) against Israeli ships or those who are heading to the ports of occupied Palestine until the siege is lifted and the aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip stops.

New bombings from the United Kingdom and the United States

The Yemeni rebels had denounced this Tuesday morning three new bombings carried out by the United States and the United Kingdom against the city of Saada, in northwest Yemen, as part of operations by Washington and London to reduce the insurgents’ ability to attack merchant ships in the Red Sea.

“The British-American aggression has launched three attacks against the east of the city of Saada,” the Spokesperson for Security Issues of the Ministry of the Interior of the Ansaralah movement, better known as the Houthis, published on its Telegram channel, without giving more details. information about it.