Overnight airstrikes in Yemen kill 12, Houthi rebels say
News agency run by Iran-backed terror group claims 30 wounded in US bombardment on capital Sanaa and across country, amid stepped-up monthlong campaign
US airstrikes on Yemen’s capital killed 12 people and wounded 30 others, the Houthi rebels said early Monday.
The Houthi-run Saba news agency cited the ministry as saying the dead and injured had resulted from overnight strikes “by the American enemy” on a market and a residential zone in the Farwa neighborhood in Sanaa’s Shuub district.
Other raids were reported late Sunday in the nearby area of Amran, the central province of Marib, Hodeida in the west and the Houthi bastion of Saada in the north, Saba said.
The US military has been carrying out almost-daily attacks for the past month to stop attacks on international shipping in the Gulf as well as attacks on Israel. One attack Thursday on the Ras Issa oil port killed at least 74 people and injured 171, according to the Houthis.
The strikes also follow the resumption of negotiations in Rome between the US and Iran over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, which Washington has linked to its attacks in Yemen.
The Houthis said in a statement later Monday that they had carried out cruise missile and drone attacks on a US aircraft carrier in the Red Sea and another one in the Arabian Sea in response to “the American aggression of our country and its massacres of our people.”
No strikes on US vessels were reported by American authorities.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Saturday that he was “gravely concerned” by recent US strikes on Yemen but also called on the Houthis to stop missile attacks on Israel and Gulf shipping.
The Houthis started lobbing missile at Israel and Gulf shipping lanes in solidarity with Hamas following the terror group’s October 7, 2023, assault on southern Israel and is the last of Iran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance” that has continued to launch regular attacks. The group last launched a ballistic missile at Israel on Friday, triggering sirens across central Israel and Jerusalem. Israel said it intercepted the missile.
From November 2023 to January 2025, the Houthis targeted more than 100 merchant vessels plying the Red Sea and Arabian Sea with missiles and drones, sinking two of them and killing four sailors. That has greatly reduced the flow of trade through the vital corridor, which typically sees $1 trillion of goods move through it. The Houthis also launched attacks targeting American warships without success.
US raids started in January 2024 but have been stepped up since President Donald Trump took office this year. The US military’s Central Command declined to answer questions about the strike or discuss civilian casualties from its campaign.
Assessing the toll of the month-old US airstrike campaign has been difficult because the military hasn’t released information about the attacks, including what was targeted and how many people were killed.
The Houthis, meanwhile, strictly control access to attacked areas and don’t publish complete information on the strikes, many of which have likely targeted military and security sites.
The Times of Israel Community.