The US military conducted five strikes on a Houthi military site in Yemen’s province of Amran, north of the capital Sanaa, on Friday morning, according to the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV.

The strikes targeted an outpost in the Harf Sufyan district in northern Amran, the report said, without providing further details. The Houthi group, which controls much of northern Yemen, rarely discloses its casualties or losses.

Residents shared on social media that they heard a series of loud explosions at dawn coming from the Houthi military outpost, which is reportedly used to store weapons beneath rocky hills.

The US Central Command has not yet commented on the strikes, as reported by Xinhua news agency.

The Houthi military site, along with other outposts in northern provinces and the capital Sanaa, has been frequently targeted by US airstrikes since January 2024.

The latest strikes occurred just hours after the Houthi leader, Abdulmalik al-Houthi, vowed in a televised speech to continue launching long-range rocket attacks on Israel if Israeli forces persisted in their operations in Gaza before implementing the announced Gaza ceasefire agreement.

“Our military operations will continue in support of the Palestinian people if the Israeli enemy continues its genocidal massacres and escalation before implementing the ceasefire agreement,” said Abdulmalik al-Houthi on the Houthi-run Al-Masirah satellite TV channel.

“We will keep an open eye on the stages of implementing the ceasefire agreement [in Gaza], and if Israel makes any breach or massacre at any phase of implementing the ceasefire agreement, we will be ready immediately to conduct military support for the Palestinian people,” he added.

Al-Houthi also stated that the United States is attempting to end Hamas’s role in the region but predicted its efforts would fail.

He claimed that his group has carried out “1,255 attacks” against Israeli cities, Israeli-linked ships, and US warships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden since November 2023, nearly three weeks after the Israel-Hamas war began.

–IANS
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