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4 killed, 16 injured in US attack on residential area in Yemen’s Al Hudaydah
SANAA, Yemen/ISTANBUL. Yemen’s Houthi group said several people were killed and injured Tuesday in a US attack that targeted the western city of Al Hudaydah.
“The number of victims of the blatant US aggression, which targeted the Amin Muqbil residential city in Al-Hawak district, Al Hudaydah province with multiple airstrikes, has risen to 4 martyrs and 16 injured,” the Health Ministry of the Houthi-led government said in a statement. “There are still injuries trapped under the rubble, and ambulances and civil defense teams are on-site searching for victims.”
It condemned “the continued targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure by the American enemy,” describing it as
“a full-fledged war crime and a blatant violation of all laws and international conventions.”
There was no immediate comment from the United States.
In a related development, Houthi-affiliated Al-Masirah TV reported that “a US aggression targeted the telecommunications network in the Shawabah area of the Dhi Bin District in the Amran Governorate in northern Yemen.”
The group reported earlier that US warplanes launched 22 additional airstrikes across war-torn Yemen.
US President Donald Trump said last month that he ordered “decisive and powerful military action” against the Houthis and later threatened to “completely annihilate them.”
Trump, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, said strikes on the Houthis had been “very successful militarily.”
At least 82 civilians have been killed and 214 injured in the strikes since March 15, according to Yemeni health authorities.
The Houthis have targeted ships in the Red and Arabian seas, the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden since November 2023 in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has killed more than 50,700 victims in a brutal onslaught.
The airstrike campaign began after the group threatened to restart targeting ships because of Israel’s blocking aid from entering Gaza.
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