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 reports.
The strikes targeted the outpost in the Harf Sufyan district in northern Amran, said television reports, which did not provide further details. The rebel group, which controls much of northern Yemen, rarely discloses its casualties or losses.
Residents on social media reported hearing a series of loud explosions at dawn from the Houthi military outpost, where weapons are stored beneath rocky hills. The US Central Command has yet to comment on the strikes, according to reports.
The Houthi military site, along with other military outposts in other northern provinces and the capital Sanaa, has been frequently targeted by US air raids since January 2024.
The fresh strikes came a few hours after the group’s leader, Abdulmalik al-Houthi, vowed in a televised speech that his group would continue launching long-range rocket attacks on Israel if Israeli forces persisted with raids on the Gaza Strip before the implementation of the announced Gaza ceasefire deal.
“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, leader of the Houthi group, in a televised speech aired by Houthi-run al-Masirah satellite TV channel.
“We will keep a watchful eye on the stages of implementing the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, and if Israel breaches or commits massacres at any phase, we will be ready to provide immediate military support for the Palestinian people,” he added.
“The United States is working to end Hamas’s role in the future, but it will fail,” he said.
The Houthi leader also claimed that his group had launched “1255 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 broke out.
