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The Houthis (Ansar Allah) announced on April 18 that they launched another missile at Israel, targeted two United States aircraft carriers and shot down another combat drone, less than a day after a deadly American attack on Yemen’s Red Sea coast.
In a statement, Houthi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said that the group launched a Zulfiqar ballistic missile at a “military target” located near Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel in response to what it called “the genocidal war” on the Gaza Strip.
The Houthis also targeted the aircraft carriers USS Harry S. Truman and USS Carl Vinson, in addition to other U.S. Navy warships, in the Red and Arab seas with cruise missiles and suicide drones in response to “the American aggression” against Yemen, according to the spokesman, who vowed that the group will “meet escalation with escalation.”
“This was the first targeting of the carrier Vinson since its arrival in the Arabian Sea,” Brig. Gen. Saree said.
The spokesman announced in the same statement that the Houthis also shot down yet another MQ-9 Reaper combat drone, this time over the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
“This was the fifth [drone] in three weeks, and the twentieth during the battle of the promised conquest and the holy jihad in support of Gaza,” he said.
Early in the morning, the Israeli military said that a ballistic missile launched at Israel by the group from Yemen was successfully intercepted by air defenses. Sirens sounded across central Israel, in the Jerusalem area, and in some West Bank settlements. There are no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which is responsible for all American military operations in the Middle East, has not yet commented on the other claims made by the Houthis.
The Houthis’ attacks began just a few hours after a series of U.S. strikes targeted the oil port of Ras Isa in the western province of al-Hodeidah late on April 17, killing 38 people and wounding over a 100 others.
CENTCOM resumed strikes against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen on March 15 on orders from President Donald Trump, who said at the time that the large-scale operation was launched in response to the group’s renewed attacks on Israel-affiliated shipping in the Red Sea. Over 160 people have been killed since the start of the operation.
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