Pentagon: US strike takes out 2 Houthi missiles about to launch

The Pentagon announced that the United States has removed two Houthi missiles that the group had attempted to fire into the Red Sea, targeting a cargo ship.

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a post on the X Platform at around 2:30 a.m. local time on Wednesday that it had “attacked two Houthi anti-ship missiles that were ready for launch toward the southern Red Sea. It has been carried out.'' Formerly known as Twitter.

“The U.S. military has identified a missile in Houthi-held territory in Yemen and determined it poses an imminent threat to commercial shipping and U.S. naval vessels in the region,” the CENTCOM post said. read. “The U.S. military then attacked and destroyed the missile in self-defense.”

The United States and Britain carried out a major offensive against the Houthis on Monday, using ships and fighter jets to target eight Houthi targets in Yemen, including underground weapons caches and missile systems and launchers. and carried out an “appropriate and necessary attack”.

There were multiple targets in some of the Houthi strongholds that were bombed, a senior military official told reporters.

“At this time, we assess that the attack was successful and had the desired effect of removing these capabilities from the Houthis,” they said.

Monday's bombings were backed by Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, which have stepped up action against the Iranian-backed Houthis, who say they will continue to carry out attacks in the Red Sea in protest of Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip. It means.

The current war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas began in early October with a brutal attack that killed 1,200 Israelis and has now been going on for more than 100 days. The death toll in Gaza recently reached 25,000, according to local health authorities.