Residents stated that numerous fighter jets could be heard in downtown Sanaa during the airstrikes that struck camps near the city. The locals said that the explosions happened in the mountains to the north and south of the metropolis. The airstrikes struck two military bases under the control of the Houthi group: al-Nahdain Mountain and Attan, according to al-Masirah TV, which is run by the Houthis. Locals living close to those mountains told Xinhua that the explosions were so strong that they shattered windows in numerous neighboring buildings and shook the ground. Al-Masirah TV claimed that “US-British aggression” had started airstrikes against sites in the nation’s capital.
Regarding the strikes, the US-British marine coalition remained silent. Nonetheless, anonymous US military officials were cited by US media as saying that on Saturday, the US army attacked more than thirty Houthis in several parts of Yemen, including the capital city of Sanaa. According to the officials, the airstrikes were a reaction to the drone attack that took the lives of three US soldiers in Jordan last week. In less than a day, the US-led coalition carried out its fourth operation against Houthi targets. The US Central Command briefed on earlier strikes on the same day on social media platform X, hours before the most recent airstrikes on Sanaa. They stated that “at 7:20 pm (Sanaa time), US Central Command forces conducted strikes in self-defense against six Houthi anti-ship cruise missiles prepared to launch.
The Israeli defense forces said they intercepted and destroyed the long-range missile before it reached its target, despite the Houthis’ claims of responsibility for its launch on Friday toward the Israeli city of Eilat. Since the Israel-Hamas conflict began on October 7, 2023, the Houthis have launched more than 40 attacks in the Red Sea against Israel and commercial ships with ties to Israel. The Houthis demanded that Israel halt the war and its siege of Gaza and claimed that their attacks were in defense of the Palestinian people. The Houthi militia, which is in charge of the strategically important Red Sea province of Hodeidah in Yemen, has threatened to carry out more strikes in the region against US, British, and Israeli navy and commercial ships.
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