The Yemeni group Houthi said Thursday that at least 40 Yemenis were killed and 35 others injured since the beginning of the American-British airstrikes on the country in January. "The U.S. and Britain launched 452 attacks against Yemen since January 12, killing 40 people and injuring 35 others," the group leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said in a televised speech today. He did not clarify whether the casualties were civilians or fighters from his group. Previously, the Yemeni group revealed the killing of 22 of its fighters, including high-ranking officers in the airstrikes. The Houthis have been targeting ships that are Israeli-owned, flagged, operated or heading to Israeli ports in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden with missiles and drones in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, which has been under a devastating Israeli offensive since October 7, 2023.
Yemen's Houthi group said Thursday that it had targeted 107 ships since the start of Israel's deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip. Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the group's leader, said that Yemeni fighters had carried out attacks against eight ships in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean and launched 33 ballistic missiles and winged drones this week. He added, "Some 107 ships have been targeted since November involving 606 ballistic missiles and drones."
Warplanes of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted Al-Hudaydah International Airport in Yemen, Houthi sources said today. The U.S. and the U.K. airstrikes targeted Al-Hudaydah International Airport five times, the reports said. No details regarding casualties or damage have been released so far. On Wednesday night, the United States and the United Kingdom's fighter jets bombed a region in the Saada province. The Houthi group says the U.S.-UK airstrikes will not force Yemen to stop its attacks on shipping lanes in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.
Rebuilding Gaza's shattered homes will take at least until 2040 but could drag on for many decades, according to a U.N. report released on Thursday. Nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment have caused billions of dollars in damage, leaving many of the crowded strip's high-rise concrete buildings reduced to heaps, with a U.N. official referring to a "moonscape" of destruction. Palestinian data shows that about 80,000 homes have been destroyed in a conflict triggered by Hamas fighters' attacks on southern Israel on October 7. Israeli strikes have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.