SANAA, Yemen: Yemen’s Houthi military spokesman on Monday claimed the group had launched attacks on two US aircraft carriers and two Israeli targets after US air strikes on Sanaa reportedly killed at least 12 people and wounded 30.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group launched attacks on two US aircraft carriers in response to the latest deadly American strikes.
The Houthis also targeted two Israeli locations with drones, the spokesman said.
“We launched a drone attack at a vital target in the city of Ashkelon and another drone attack at a military target in the city of Eilat,” the spokesman said in the statement aired by al-Masirah TV.
“As part of confronting the American aggression … we targeted the aircraft carrier Truman and its escorting warships in the northern Red Sea, using two cruise missiles and two drones,” Sarea said, referring to the USS S. Harry Truman.
“We also targeted the aircraft carrier Vinson (the USS Carl Vinson) and its escorting warships in the Arabian Sea, using three cruise missiles and four drones,” he said.
Earlier, Yemen’s Saba news agency cited the health ministry as saying the dead and injured had come from overnight strikes “by the American enemy” on a market and a residential zone in Sanaa’s Farwa district.
Other raids were reported late Sunday in the central province of Marib, Hodeida in the west and the Houthi bastion of Saada in the north, Saba said.
The US military has been carrying out almost daily attacks for the past month, saying it was targeting the “terrorists” to stop attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
One attack on Thursday on the Ras Issa oil port killed some 80 people and injured 150, according to the Houthis.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Saturday that he was “gravely concerned” by the US strikes.
But he also called on the Houthis to stop missile attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping.
The Houthis military spokesman reaffirmed on Monday that the group’s attacks “will continue” against Israel and the US naval forces in the region.
The Israeli defence forces have yet to comment on the Houthi claim, nor the US military.
The Houthis said they started missile attacks in solidarity with Hamas as it fights Israeli forces in Gaza.
US raids started in January 2024 but have been stepped up since President Donald Trump took office this year.
Last month, Trump ordered large-scale strikes on areas controlled by the Houthis and threatened that they would be “completely annihilated”.
Earlier this month, Trump posted a black-and-white video from an aircraft that showed a strike targeting about 70 people gathered in a circle whom he identified as Houthis.
But the Houthi-run Saba news agency cited a source as saying it was “a social Eid visit” in Hudaydah province.
Israel has also carried out air strikes against the Houthis since last July in retaliation for the hundreds of missiles and drones that the Israeli military says have been launched at the country from Yemen, most of which have been shot down.
