US Eisenhower Comes Under Direct Fire of Yemeni Armed Forces

The Yemeni Armed Forces targeted the flagship of the United States Carrier Strike Group 2, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, in response to multiple American-British strikes on Yemen. 

In a statement, the spokesperson of the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF), Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced that the YAF’s Rocket Force and Navy launched a composite strike on the aircraft carrier. 

The strike consisted of multiple anti-ship ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, which dealt direct and precise hits to the USS Eisenhower, Saree explained. The YAF’s attack on US Navy assets deployed in the region comes in response to 13 airstrikes that targeted both civilian and military areas across Yemen, leading to 58 casualties. 

In detail, Saree said that the strikes in Hodeidah alone killed 16 people and injured another 41, including civilians and military personnel. 

Saree reiterated that the YAF will “not hesitate to directly and immediately respond to any renewed aggression on Yemeni soil.”

The spokesperson said that the YAF would do so by attacking “all threatening and hostile American and British targets in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.”

Saree stressed that US-UK aggressions on Yemen will not stop the Yemeni Armed Forces from fulfilling its “religious, moral, humanitarian obligations toward the oppressed Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”

Details of the US-UK strikes on Yemen

Before revealing that the YAF launched the major attack on the aircraft carrier, Saree delved into the details of the US-UK attack on Yemen. 

Two other strikes targeted other areas in the Sanaa governorate. One strike targeted the Heifan area in Taiz. 

Saree said that four strikes targeted the Yemeni capital Sanaa, and resulted in one injury and material damages. 

The Hodeidah governorate saw the largest portion of strikes, six in total, distributed according to the following: 

• One strike targeted the al-Salif Port
• One strike targeted the radio station building
• Two strikes targeted the Ghalifqa Military Camp
• Two strikes targeted the houses of former Yemeni VP Ali Mohsen and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh

The strikes on Hodeidah killed 16 people and injured another 41, targeting and damaging several civilian infrastructure. This includes the Coast Guard in Salid, al-Thawra Hospital, and the Radio Station building. The strikes also damaged a number of merchant vessels.