The Yemeni Armed Forces targeted the flagship of the United States Carrier Strike Group 2, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, in response to multiple American-British strikes on Yemen.
In a statement, the spokesperson of the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF), Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced that the YAF’s Rocket Force and Navy launched a composite strike on the aircraft carrier.
The strike consisted of multiple anti-ship ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, which dealt direct and precise hits to the USS Eisenhower, Saree explained. The YAF’s attack on US Navy assets deployed in the region comes in response to 13 airstrikes that targeted both civilian and military areas across Yemen, leading to 58 casualties.
In detail, Saree said that the strikes in Hodeidah alone killed 16 people and injured another 41, including civilians and military personnel.
Saree reiterated that the YAF will “not hesitate to directly and immediately respond to any renewed aggression on Yemeni soil.”
The spokesperson said that the YAF would do so by attacking “all threatening and hostile American and British targets in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.”
Saree stressed that US-UK aggressions on Yemen will not stop the Yemeni Armed Forces from fulfilling its “religious, moral, humanitarian obligations toward the oppressed Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”
Details of the US-UK strikes on Yemen
Before revealing that the YAF launched the major attack on the aircraft carrier, Saree delved into the details of the US-UK attack on Yemen.
Saree said that four strikes targeted the Yemeni capital Sanaa, and resulted in one injury and material damages.
Two other strikes targeted other areas in the Sanaa governorate. One strike targeted the Heifan area in Taiz.
The Hodeidah governorate saw the largest portion of strikes, six in total, distributed according to the following:
- One strike targeted the al-Salif Port
- One strike targeted the radio station building
- Two strikes targeted the Ghalifqa Military Camp
- Two strikes targeted the houses of former Yemeni VP Ali Mohsen and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh
The strikes on Hodeidah killed 16 people and injured another 41, targeting and damaging several civilian infrastructure. This includes the Coast Guard in Salid, al-Thawra Hospital, and the Radio Station building. The strikes also damaged a number of merchant vessels.
PFLP statement
The crimes of the American-British aggression against Yemen comes in defense of the continuation of the genocide war against the people of Palestine.
The Popular Front confirmed that the American aggression on the governorate of Hodeidah in brotherly Yemen, which resulted in 16 martyrs and several wounded, is a clear expression of the brutality of the American and British enemy in committing the most heinous crimes, including the bombing of cities, destruction of infrastructure, and targeting of civilians.The Front expressed its full solidarity with brotherly Yemen, its people, and leadership in facing this aggression, affirming the gratitude of the people of Palestine for the efforts made by the heroes of Yemen, its people, and leadership in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance and people in their just struggle against the zionist genocide war.The Front stated that the American administration and the entire colonial system are desperately defending the continuation of the genocide war against the people of Palestine and seeking to expand the scope of aggression, killing, and destruction against Arab peoples fighting for their rights, freedom, and national independence, while Yemen stands proud and tall, fighting in defense of Palestine, its people, the Arab nation, and the peoples of the region, and the values of justice and humanity.The Front stressed that the United States leads an aggressive colonial alliance against the Arab peoples, deluded in thinking it can impose its hegemony on the region unchallenged, affirming that the resistance forces and their allies stand at the forefront defending their peoples, nation, and just causes.The Front said that condemnation is not enough regarding the positions of some Arab governments involved in the aggression against Yemen and complicit in the genocide war against the people of Palestine. These regimes have chosen to be in the camp of aggression, war criminals, and enemies of humanity, against the Arab nation in all its components.The Front confirmed that the unity of the blood spilled in Palestine and Yemen is the truest expression of the unity of the peoples of this nation and the living resistance forces, in confronting all propositions of abandonment and surrender, stressing its confidence that the brotherly Yemeni people have proven through their positions their great readiness to confront America’s aggressive arrogance, and to uphold their Arab, ethical, and humanitarian role in the sacred battle for the fate of the peoples of the region and the Arab nation.The Front concluded by saying that the blood of the pure martyrs that has been spilled in Palestine and Yemen, the sacrifices of the heroic fighters, and the steadfastness of the peoples and resistance forces will defeat the zionist-American-colonial alliance and open a new chapter in the history of the region.The Popular Front for the Liberation of PalestineMay 31, 2024Central Media Department