SANAA (Dispatches) – Yemeni forces on Monday carried out two separate retaliatory operations against the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and its escorts in the Red Sea, and a vital target deep inside the Israeli-occupied territories after U.S. strikes killed nearly 70 people in the country.  
Military spokesman Yahya Saree said Yemeni naval and air force units conducted a joint operation against the Nimitz-class vessel of the United States Navy and other American warships, using a number of homegrown cruise and ballistic missiles as well as combat drones.
The strikes forced the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and its escorts to retreat northward.
Saree stated that the attacks came in reprisal for deadly U.S. air raids against the Yemeni capital Sana’a and on a migrant detention center in the country’s northwestern city of Sa’ada.
Corpses covered in dust and debris were scattered in the wreckage of a detention centre for African migrants in Yemen, after a U.S. airstrike that killed 68 people.
The attack was one of the deadliest so far in six weeks of intensified U.S. airstrikes against the country.
Yemen’s Al Masirah television showed images of the aftermath of the strike in Sa’ada, on a route used by African migrants to cross impoverished, conflict-riven Yemen to reach Saudi Arabia.
The footage showed bodies covered in dust amid blood-stained rubble. Rescue workers carried a man who was moving slightly on a stretcher. A survivor could be heard calling “My mother” in Amharic, the main language of Ethiopia.
Other survivors interviewed by Yemeni television in hospital described being woken by the dawn blast. “I was thrown into the air and fell to the ground,” one said.
The American administration had committed a “brutal crime” by bombing the Sa’ada detention centre which held more than 100 undocumented African migrants, Ansarullah spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam said on X.
The group vowed to continue its attacks on Red Sea shipping in a statement from its military spokesman Saree.
Additionally, Yemeni drone units struck a strategic position in the city of Ashkelon in the southern side of the occupied lands with a domestically-developed Yaffa unmanned aerial vehicle.
The Yemeni military spokesman noted that the retaliatory operation came in solidarity with the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip amid the unrelenting Israeli genocidal war on the territory.
“We will continue to prevent the navigation of Israeli-affiliated vessels in the Red and Arabian Seas, and confront the US aggression. We will keep on support for our steadfast brethren in the Gaza Strip until the ongoing onslaught against them stops and the tight siege is completely lifted,” Saree underscored.
In reaction to the atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza and the aggression of the U.S. and UK against Yemen, Ansarullah fighters and their allies in the army have initiated a series of strikes aimed at Israeli, American, and British interests in the Red Sea and adjacent regions.