Defying Airstrikes, Yemen Targets Tel Aviv, U.S. Warships

Date: 08 April 2025 - 21:47

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SANAA (Dispatches) -- The U.S. military conducted 22 airstrikes targeting several sites across northern Yemen on Tuesday, the country’s Al-Masirah TV and residents said.
The strikes hit areas east and south of the capital Sanaa, the Island of Kamaran in the Red Sea, and areas both north and south of the oil-rich Marib province.
Residents described the airstrikes as very powerful and violent.
The latest wave of airstrikes came a day after U.S. airstrikes killed four children and wounded 25 others in Sanaa on Sunday night.
On March 15, the United States resumed airstrikes against Yemen to deter the country from attacking Israeli ships following the collapse of the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
Yemeni forces say their operations are in retaliation to U.S. airstrikes on Yemen and aim to pressure the U.S.-backed Israel to stop its genocide in Gaza and allow aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave.
On Monday, Yemeni forces launched a drone attack on a “military target” in Israel’s Tel Aviv and fired cruise missiles at two U.S. warships in the Red Sea.
“We carried out an operation against a military target in Tel Aviv, using a Jaffa drone,” military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in a televised statement aired by Al-Masirah TV.
“Our naval and air forces also conducted a joint military operation targeting two U.S. destroyers in the Red Sea with several cruise missiles and drones,” Sarea added.
He noted that the strikes on warships were “in response to the ongoing U.S. aggression and crimes against Yemeni people,” referring to the latest U.S. airstrikes on a house in Sanaa Sunday night, which killed at least four people and wounded over 20 others, including 11 women and children.
Sarea stressed that the U.S. strikes would not deter Yemen from supporting the Palestinian people, vowing its operations would not cease until Israeli “aggression” against the Gaza Strip stops and the siege on it is lifted.