The attacks target Hodeidah airport and the region north of Sanaa, according to Al Masirah television, as the Houthis continue their attacks on the Red Sea.
The United States and the United Kingdom have carried out six airstrikes against targets in Yemen, a Houthi-run TV channel reports, as the Yemeni group targets Red Sea shipping lanes.
Four attacks targeted the airport of Hodeidah, one of the main Red Sea port cities, and the seaport of Salif, north of it, Al Masirah television said. Two air raids also hit the Al-Thawra region, north of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, according to the media.
There were no immediate reports of casualties, and the U.S. and British militaries did not confirm the attacks. Friday’s strikes follow US and British attacks on Hodeidah province that the Houthis say killed 16 people last week.
The Houthis, who control Sanaa and present themselves as the official Yemeni armed forces, have for months attacked shipping lanes in the Red Sea and fired missiles and drones at Israeli targets, in a show of support for Palestinians in Gaza.
Later Friday, the Houthis said they attacked two Israel-bound ships in the Red Sea with drones and missiles.
The Yemeni group’s operations have angered the United States and other Western countries. The United States and its allies have been bombing Houthi targets in Yemen since January, but the military campaign has not deterred Houthi attacks.
The US military regularly announces interceptions of Houthi attacks. On Thursday, he announced that he had destroyed eight Houthi drones launched over the Red Sea.
The same day, the Yemeni group announced that it had launched two joint military operations with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq against ships in the Israeli port of Haifa, in response to the “massacres of the Israeli enemy in Rafah”, in the south of the Gaza strip.
More than 36,700 people have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7.
Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said the group’s operations against Israel with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iraqi armed groups backed by Iran, would intensify.
Attacks by the Houthis, the US and the UK have raised fears of an extension of the conflict in Gaza as well as concerns about efforts to end Yemen’s civil war. Since 2014, the Houthis have been fighting forces loyal to the internationally recognized government, backed by Saudi Arabia.
A fragile truce has been in place since 2022.
According to a Bloomberg News report published Thursday, Washington is seeking to block major elements of a United Nations peace plan adopted in December by Yemen’s warring parties unless the Houthis stop their attacks on international shipping.
