Yemen strikes US aircraft carrier in Red Sea as Israel hits Yemeni targets
Yemen’s armed forces say they have conducted retaliatory strikes against an American aircraft carrier and several other US warships in response to Washington’s support for the Israeli regime’s war of genocide against the Gaza Strip and its efforts at stopping Sana’a’s anti-Israeli reprisal.
In a statement on Friday, the forces said they had targeted the vessels, including the American aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, in the northern part of the Red Sea over the previous 48 hours, using cruise missiles and explosive-laden drones.
"The operation .. succeeded in thwarting a new aerial attack launched against our nation from the carrier," said the statement, adding, "The attack forced the carrier and its accompanying warships to withdraw from the northern Red Sea region."
The statement pointed to Thursday's strikes against the northern side of the city of Yaffa near Tel Aviv, the Israeli regime’s economic heart, in the occupied Palestinian territories, using three unmanned aerial vehicles.
The strikes likewise succeeded in hitting their intended targets, it noted.
The Yemeni troops began launching their operations against Israeli targets in October 2023 in support of Gaza and Lebanon, which have respectively come under the genocidal war and escalated deadly assaults by the Israeli regime.
The successful strikes were both preceded and followed by intensified deadly aggression by the regime, the United States, its biggest ally, and the United Kingdom against the Yemeni territory.
The forces have been responding by ramping up their strikes against strategic and sensitive Israeli and American targets, including the US warships and aircraft carriers that are deployed off Yemen’s coastline.
Attack on Sana'a amid million-man march
On Friday, it was reported that Israeli and the US’s warplanes targeted the vicinity of the al-Sabeen Square in the Yemeni capital Sana’a amid massive protests against the continuation of Israeli genocide against Gaza.
The aggression caused massive explosions in the city.
Yemen’s al-Masirah television network said the aircraft hit the Amran Province, north of Sana’a.
According to the network, the targets included some areas around the Harf Sufyan District in the province, which were attacked on 12 occasions.
It also reported that the aggressors had targeted the Ra’s Isa Port and the al-Hudaydah Port in western Yemen in several cases.
Meanwhile, Lebanon’s al-Akhbar newspaper said the US, the UK, and the regime had conducted 30 joint attacks against the Arab Peninsula nation since the onset of its pro-Palestinian strikes.
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