Houthis report 2 killed in suspected US strikes on Yemen port city of Hodeida

Suspected US airstrikes pounded the area around Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida on Tuesday night, killing at least two people and wounding 13 others, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels say.

The strikes hit around Hodeida’s al-Hawak District, the rebels say. The area is home to the city’s airport, which the rebels have used in the past to target shipping in the Red Sea.

Since its start, the intense campaign of US airstrikes targeting the rebels over their attacks on shipping in Mideast waters — related to the Israel-Hamas war — has killed at least 75 people, according to casualty figures released by the Houthis.

Footage aired by the rebels’ al-Masirah satellite news channel shows chaotic scenes of people carrying wounded to waiting ambulances and rescuers searching by the light of their mobile phones. The target appears in the footage to be a home in a residential neighborhood, likely part of a wider decapitation campaign launched by the Trump administration to kill rebel leaders.

Other strikes target Yemen’s mountainous Amran governorate, north of the rebel-held capital of Sanaa. There, the Houthis describe American strikes hitting telecommunication equipment. Previous US strikes also targeted telecommunications gear in Amran near Jebel Aswad, or the “Black Mountain.”

The US military’s Central Command, which oversees American military operations, doesn’t immediately acknowledge the strikes. That follows a pattern for the command, which now has authorization from the White House to conduct strikes at will in the campaign that began March 15