Houthis: Three killed in US airstrikes on Sanaa
Suspected U.S. airstrikes in Yemen overnight into Thursday killed at least three people, while the death toll in an earlier attack rose to 13 dead, the Iran-backed Houthi said.
Yemen’s Houthi group said Wednesday that at least 16 people were killed in US airstrikes.
The Houthi-run Al-Masirah television network reported that the strikes targeted areas of Hodeida and the capital Sanaa.
The 13 killed in strikes Tuesday night around Hodeida’s al-Hawak district made it one of the deadliest single incidents in the ongoing American campaign, the Houthi said. Another 15 people were wounded. The Houthis described the majority of those killed as women and children, without providing a breakdown.
In Sanaa, multiple airstrikes targeted the Rajam area in Bani Hushaysh district and al-Nahdayn area in Al-Sabeen district, killing three people.
Last month, US President Donald Trump said he had ordered “decisive and powerful military action” against the Houthis and later threatened to “completely annihilate them.”
The Houthis have targeted ships passing through the Red and Arabian seas, the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden since November 2023 in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has killed more than 50,000 people.
The group halted attacks when a ceasefire in Gaza was declared in January between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas but resumed them after renewed Israeli airstrikes on the enclave last month.
