Houthi Strikes ‘Send Clearest Message’

Agencies – Sudan Events

The latest strikes against Houthi rebels send the “clearest possible message” that they must stop attacking ships in the Red Sea, Lord Cameron has said.
Cameron Tuesday said the UK has “no quarrel” with the Yemeni people, but Britain and the US want to show that “we back our words and our warnings with action”.
“What we have done again is send the clearest possible message that we will continue to degrade their ability to carry out these attacks while sending the clearest possible message that we back our words and our warnings with action.”
Lord Cameron said “we shouldn’t accept the Houthi narrative” that the strikes in the Red Sea are connected to the conflict in Israel and Gaza, saying the Yemeni government doesn’t accept that either.
“What the Houthis are doing is attacking shipping indiscriminately and trying to close a vital sea lane, whereas we want to keep that sea lane open.”
Last night, the US and UK carried out joint attacks on Houthi military targets in Yemen for the second time.
The strikes targeted a Houthi underground storage site and locations associated with the Houthis’ missile and air surveillance capabilities, a joint statement from the UK, US, Bahrain, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands said.
It added that attacks by the Houthis on “international and commercial vessels” in the Red Sea “constitute an international challenge”.
The Ministry of Defence said four RAF Typhoons, supported by a pair of Voyager tankers, “joined US forces in a deliberate strike against Houthi sites in Yemen”.
It added that Paveway IV precision-guided bombs were used to strike “multiple targets at two military sites in the vicinity of Sanaa airfield”.
The MoD continued: “These locations were being used to enable the continued intolerable attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea.”