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Yemen’s armed forces said on Wednesday evening that it targeted a US ship called “Genco Picardy” in the Gulf of Aden with multiple naval missiles, while the US army carried out last night renewed strikes against targets in northern Yemen.
“In support of Palestinian people and in response to the US and British aggression against our country, our naval forces carried out an attack targeting the US ship ‘Genco Picardy’ in the Gulf of Aden with a number of missiles, and the strike was accurate and direct,” Yemen’s military spokesman Yehya Sariee said in a statement aired by the Houthi-run al-Masirah satellite channel.
“Our forces will not hesitate to target all sources of threat in the Arab Sea and the Red Sea within our legitimate right to defend Yemen and to continue supporting the oppressed Palestinian people,” spokesman Sariee underscored.
“The Yemeni armed forces assert that their response to US and British attacks is inevitable, and that any new attack will not go unanswered and unpunished,” the spokesman added.
The spokesman reiterated Yemen’s unwavering support for the victimized Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, emphasizing the armed forces’ commitment to “preventing Israeli ships from heading for the ports of occupied Palestine (Israel) until the US-backed Israeli aggression against Gaza stops.”
The Yemeni military attack on a US ship was the second in recent days targeting vessels directly linked to America following US-led strikes against the Houthi group and its armed forces in Yemen.
For its part, the US army said its responded to the Houthi attack by launching strikes on the group’s positions in Yemen.
Yemeni media outlets said that the US and British armies bombed sites in different areas of northern Yemen, including in the provinces of Hodeida, Taizz, Dhamar, Bayda and Sa’dah.
Many cargo ships have avoided the area and sailed a much longer route around southern Africa since the Houthi group and its armed forces started launching attacks on vessels in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea in response to the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.
The latest Yemeni attack comes as the US put the Houthis – who control large parts of northern Yemen – back on its list of designated global terrorists.
In a related context, the Palestinian resistance factions, including Hamas, have strongly denounced the US administration’s decision to put Yemen’s Houthi group back on its global terrorism list, and expressed their rejection of the US bias in favor of the Israeli aggression against Gaza.
In a statement, the Hamas Movement called the US decision against the Houthi group as “politically motivated,” a “blatant bias in favor the Israeli occupation” and an “obvious attempt to protect it and provide it with cover to persist in its brutal aggression and genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”
