The Yemeni Ansar Allah (Houthis) group said on Saturday evening that the Israeli raids on the ports of Hodeidah from last July 20 until December 19 left losses estimated at about $313 million.
The new statistics were revealed during a press conference held by the Minister of Transport in the Houthi government, Muhammad Qahim, in the presence of Houthi leaders and the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) team, regarding the repercussions of Israel’s targeting of the ports of Hodeidah, Saleef and Ras Issa.
A statement – issued by the press conference – explained that the Red Sea Ports Corporation is still suffering from the consequences of previous damage from the Israeli raids on the three ports of Hodeidah.
He stated that the recent Israeli raids caused severe damage to the equipment and infrastructure of the port of Hodeidah, affecting the bridge cranes, the power station, and the ships’ auxiliary tug cranes, with total losses estimated at about $313 million.
The statement considered the destruction of Yemeni ports a blatant violation of the principles and provisions of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, including the four Geneva Conventions and the protocols attached to them, which criminalize targeting vital facilities that are indispensable to people, such as ports and economic facilities, as they are among the civilian objects that are prohibited from being targeted.
New American raids
The US Central Command (Centcom) announced the implementation of “precision” air strikes on a missile storage facility and a command and control facility run by the Ansar Allah group (Houthis) in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
The US Central Command said late on Saturday that the strikes aimed to “disrupt and weaken Houthi operations, including attacks on US warships and commercial ships in the southern Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab, and the Gulf of Aden.”
It said – in a statement – that it bombed “several Houthi drones” and an anti-ship cruise missile over the Red Sea.
It explained that these strikes and operations “involved US Air Force and Navy assets, including FA-18 aircraft,” without mentioning any British participation in them.
For its part, the Ansar Allah group (Houthis) announced that the American-British coalition launched an air attack on Sanaa on Saturday evening.
The Houthis’ Al-Masirah satellite channel reported, in a brief breaking news story, “An American-British air aggression targeted the Attan area in Sana’a.”
This comes two days after Sanaa and sites in Hodeidah Governorate in western Yemen, including the port, were subjected to 16 Israeli air strikes, according to what the Houthis announced. Firefighters were trying to control a fire in the Yemeni port of Hodeidah on Saturday, according to Reuters.
And “in solidarity with Gaza” in the face of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on the Strip since October 7, 2023, which led to the death and injury of nearly 153,000 Palestinians, the Ansar Allah group, since November of the same year, began targeting Israeli cargo ships or ships. Linked to Israel in the Red Sea with missiles and drones.
In response to these attacks, since the beginning of this year, Washington and London began launching air strikes on sites in Yemen, which the group responded by announcing that it had now considered all American and British ships among its military targets, and expanded its attacks to ships passing through the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean or any place it reached. Her weapons.
The Ansar Allah group also launches from time to time attacks with missiles and drones on Israel, some of which targeted Tel Aviv, and stipulates stopping its attacks as an end to the Israeli war of annihilation against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
