The US military announced on Saturday that it had carried out strikes against Houthi military installations in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. These strikes targeted “a missile storage facility and a command center operated by the Houthis supported by Iran”, announced the American military Command for the Middle East (Centcom) on X. This attack comes a few hours after that the Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for firing a missile into central Israel, an ally of Washington, causing 16 minor injuries.
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“ US Central Command (Centcom) forces conducted precision airstrikes against a missile storage facility and command and control facility operated by the Iran-backed Houthis in Houthi-controlled territory in Sanaa », Wrote the US Military Command for the Middle East in a post published on X on Saturday evening, December 21.
The army also claimed to have shot down, during this operation, several drones fired by the Houthis as well as cruise missiles over the Red Sea.
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The announcement of these American strikes comes after the firing of a missile on Tel Aviv, claimed by the Houthi rebels, which caused 16 minor injuries during the night from Friday to Saturday. The Houthis claimed responsibility for firing a “ Palestine 2 hypersonic ballistic missile” on a “military target of the Israeli enemy » in the Jaffa sector, south of Tel Aviv. The rebels claimed that this attack was carried out in response to “the massacres against (the) people in Gaza” and in “rretaliation for Israeli aggression against (their) country “.
The Houthis had already fired a missile at Israel two days earlier, which caused significant damage to a school in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, caused by “ a partial interception » according to the Israeli army. The army, for its part, bombed rebel ports and energy infrastructure in Yemen, killing nine people.
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Since the start of the war triggered on October 7, 2023 by the unprecedented attack of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli soil, the Houthis of Yemen, supported by Iran, have launched numerous attacks against Israel, which responded to several times.