U.S. and British warplanes launched fresh airstrikes against Houthi sites in Yemen on Monday, according to the Yemeni group. Six strikes targeted Jabanah district in the coastal Al Hudaydah province, the Houthi-run Al-Masirah television said. U.S. and British planes also carried out four airstrikes in Al-Faza district in the same province, the broadcaster said. No reports were yet available about casualties or damage. There was no immediate U.S. comment on the report.With the U.S. and U.K. launching retaliatory airstrikes against Houthi sites inside Yemen, the Houthis declared that they consider all American and British ships military targets. U.S. and U.K. began launching strikes against Houthis on January 12 in response to the Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and his Yemeni counterpart Ahmed bin Mubarak discussed energy cooperation between the countries, reported Yemen's state-run Saba News Agency. A Libyan government statement said the two leaders reviewed the establishment of new partnerships and cooperation between the countries in the field of energy. During a phone call, the two sides discussed "regional developments, opening new horizons for partnerships between the two countries on energy, activating cooperation agreements and revitalizing Libya's investments in Yemen," according to the statement.
Yemen's Houthi-aligned armed forces have carried out military training exercises to simulate a potential U.S. and British invasion of the country. According to the Yemen Press Agency, the "Promised Day Maneuver" showcased intense combat training, during which an air landing by U.S. and British forces on a Yemeni village was simulated. The Houthi-run Saba News Agency said that units of the Special Forces of the Central Military carried out one of its largest combat training and military maneuvers, which lasted more than two hours, in which a thousand fighters from the region participated, including the popular resistance committees. Houthi-appointed Minister of Defense, Major General Nasser Al-Atifi, affirmed Yemen's capability to defend itself and "deal with an international community that respects only the strong."
Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food to areas cut off by fighting the global hunger monitor said on Monday. The Integrated Food-Security Phase Classification (IPC), whose assessments are relied on by U.N. agencies, said 70% of people in parts of northern Gaza were suffering the most severe level of food shortage, more than triple the 20% threshold to be considered famine.
