British and US military attacks on Houthi rebels in several Yemeni provinces this Friday will be successful, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.
“The first signs are that the attacks were successful. We will continue to monitor the situation,” he said in statements to reporters during a trip to Kyiv this morning.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a televised address in Sanaa that the United States and Britain carried out a total of 73 attacks on several Houthi-controlled provinces in Yemen, killing five people and wounding six others.
Sunak explained that the UK acted in “self-defence” due to Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, as well as on the British warship HMS Diamond on Tuesday.
“Obviously, such behavior cannot be accepted without a response, we must send a strong signal that such a violation of international law is incorrect,” he added.
“The goal is very clear: it is to ease tensions and restore stability in the region,” said the British prime minister, who promised to make a statement about the intervention in Parliament on Monday.
The US, UK, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand and South Korea issued a joint statement emphasizing that the military action was to protect international trade in the Red Sea. , through which about 15% of global maritime trade passes.
Almost 15% of global maritime trade, including 8% of global grain trade, 12% of global oil trade and 8% of global liquefied natural gas trade, occurs on this route.
The airstrikes hit Yemen’s capital Sanaa and other cities controlled by Iran-backed Shiite rebels such as Hodeidah and Saada, Houthi TV channel Al-Massirah reported on Friday.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels say they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, an area devastated by the war between Israel and Hamas, sparked by the Islamist movement’s terrorist attacks on Israeli territory that have killed about 1,200 people, including more than two. one hundred abducted.
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Source: CM Jornal
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