In solidarity with US, the United Kingdom has joined in the airstrike against Iran-backed rebel fighters, Houthis, after they had destroyed Israeli shipment bombarding Gaza from the Red Sea.
By Samuel Odunayo Afolabi
The Houthis, as part of its support for Hamas in the war, had heavily gone down on the Israeli ships which were striking Hamas’ location in Gaza.
In response to the Houthis’ retaliatory assault, the US has since then launched airstrike against Yemeni’s most important militant storage locations, which included launch sites, ballistic missile storage, cruise missile storage, drone storage, and radar system.
Explaining the reason for the bombardment, the American President Joe Biden affirmed that he ordered the strikes ‘in direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea’.
Biden said, “Today, at my direction, U.S. military forces — together with the United Kingdom and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands—successfully conducted strikes against a number of targets in Yemen used by Houthi rebels to endanger freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most vital waterways,” the president said in a statement released by the White House.
“Biden added that he will “not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international commerce as necessary.”
However, the spokesperson of the Yemeni Armed Forces, Yahya Sare’e, has therefore promised that the American-British attacks will not go “unanswered and unpunished“, as they, from their own end, prepare for a counter-response.
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Also, while commenting on the ongoing airstrike launched by order of President Biden, Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, has released a statement, calling the US-UK strikes on the Houthis “illegitimate“.
The Houthis have been a long time supporting force for Hamas in the war in Gaza.
Soon after the Hamas massacre on 7 October, the Houthi leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi said his forces would be “ready to move in the hundreds of thousands to join the Palestinian people and confront the enemy”.
