Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels announced this Wednesday that they launched “several naval missiles” against a US destroyer in the southern Red Sea, in their “legitimate right of self-defense” against bombing by the United States and the United Kingdom.
The Houthi military spokesman, Yehya Sarea, stated in his official account on His military ship “USS Gravely” shot down a missile launched by the Houthis “into the Red Sea.”
At approximately 11:30 pm (Sanaa time), US forces fired at the missile and shot it down, according to the command itself on its networks.
According to the Houthi spokesperson, their subsequent attack occurs “in defense of the oppressed Palestinian people” and “in the framework of the response to the American-British aggression against our country.”
A person follows an intervention by the Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Sarea, on a mobile phone. EFE/EPA/Yaha Arhab
“The Yemeni Armed Forces (as the Houthis define themselves) reaffirm that all American and British warships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea that participate in the aggression against our country are within the target bank of our forces and will be attacked within the right of self-defense of our country, our people and our nation,” he added.
“Self-defense” attack
This is the first time that the Houthi rebels, backed by Iran, speak in a statement of “self-defense” against the recent bombings by the US and the United Kingdom of their missile and drone launch bases to ensure navigation in the Red Sea.
In recent weeks, the Houthis have launched numerous attacks against merchant ships that they said were Israeli or linked to Israel, in “support of the oppressed Palestinian people in Gaza,” which led several shipping companies to stop using the important sea route.
The spokesman for the Yemeni insurgents, who have controlled large regions of the north, center and west of the poor Arab country since 2014, insisted that their forces “will continue to prevent Israeli navigation or navigation to the ports of occupied Palestine until it ceases.” the aggression against Gaza and the lifting of the siege imposed by Israel on the Strip. With EFE
