Yemen announces 6 new operations against US carrier, other vessels

The military spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said in a video statement that the attack came in a series of operations on Saturday.

He identified the American carrier in question, USS Dwight Eisenhower, and said that the vessel was hit in the Red Sea "with a number of ballistic missiles and drones." On Friday, too, the Armed Forces had announced targeting the same boat "with several winged and ballistic missiles."

Another, Saree said, targeted in the Red Sea "an American destroyer" with ballistic missiles and drones.

It then led to retaliatory attacks after warplanes from America and Britain and US warships targeted the western Yemeni provinces of Sana'a, al-Hudaydah, and Ta'izz, killing over 16 people and wounding more than 40 others.

The spokesman went on to announce four further strikes against commercial ships said to be in breach of a ban imposed by Sana'a on vessels flying the Israeli flag or those bound for the ports of the occupied Palestinian territories.

Yemeni armed forces have been enforcing the ban since October last, when the Israeli regime dragged Gaza under the war so far that has killed 36,379 Gazans, most of them women and children.

Saree named one of the boats that had been targeted in the pro-Palestinian operations as the Maina. She said the boat "was targeted with two military operations in the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea."

He also noted that two more ships—Aloraiq in the Indian Ocean and Abliani in the Red Sea—were attacked. All the six operations struck their targets "with accuracy and directly," he quoted. He, meanwhile, vowed that the Armed Forces would keep up their pro-Palestinian strikes as long as the Israeli regime sustained the war and a siege that the government has been simultaneously enforcing against Gaza.