Iran-backed Houthis say US strikes will have no significant impact on their Red Sea capabilities

Yemen’s Houthis’ spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam tells Reuters that US-led strikes on Yemen, including the latest one on a military base in Sanaa, had no significant impact on the Houthi capabilities to continue preventing Israel-affiliated vessels from passing through the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.

The comments come after the US military hit another Houthi target in Yemen that it had determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk, a day after the US and Britain launched multiple airstrikes targeting the group.

The US-led strikes were launched in response to a recent campaign of drone and missile attacks on commercial ships in the vital Red Sea maritime route, which did not only target vessels linked to Israel.

The Iran-backed group says it is carrying out the strikes in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza amid the war between Israel and Hamas, sparked by the terror group’s devastating October 7 onslaught.