Updated 03.51 | Published 02.50
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full screen A protester in Iran protests outside the British embassy in Tehran on Friday against US and UK attacks on the Iran-backed Islamist Houthi movement in Yemen. Photo: Vahid Salemi/AP/TT
The US has attacked a radar facility in Yemen that it says belongs to the Iran-backed Houthi movement, a day after a major US and UK attack on the movement there.
According to what the American military tells AP, the target this time was a radar station that is considered to pose a threat to civilian shipping in the Red Sea.
AP journalists in Saana claim to have heard a powerful explosion.
In Friday’s attacks, the targets for the United States were 60, collected in 28 locations.
The American and British attacks are a response to the Huthi movement’s attacks in the 1930s, with robots, among other things, on merchant ships in the Red Sea.
The Islamist Houthi movement, which controls a large part of Yemen, has said it is targeting ships linked to Israel. It is a way for them to show support for the Palestinians in the war in Gaza, the movement claims.
Several of the world’s shipping giants have, as a result of the Huthi movement’s attacks on ships, changed their routes to go around Africa instead of taking the closest route through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal to and from Europe.