US, UK Attacks on Yemen Not to Go Unanswered: Islamic Jihad

IQNA – The Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad condemned airstrikes by the US and UK against Yemen, stressing that the brutal attacks won’t go unanswered.

It said in a statement on Thursday that the attacks have remove any doubts about the US’ leadership of occupiers’ war against regional nations. 

What the US says about defending freedom of international trade and providing security for shipping is sheer lies aimed at justifying its crimes, the statement said.

It noted that Yemeni forces only target vessels belonging to the Israeli regime or bound for Israeli ports.  

“We are certain that the Yemeni nation and brave forces will respond to these attacks,” the Islamic Jihad underscored.

US and British warplanes bombed Yemen's capital city of Sana'a and several other areas, amid the country’s solidarity with the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and the Lebanese nation in the face of Israel's brutal aggression.

Yemen's al-Masirah television network said the US-British aggression targeted the al-Hafa and Jirban areas in the north and south of the capital with six airstrikes on Thursday morning.

The television network also said the warplanes struck the northwestern Yemeni city of Sa'ada as well as the Kahlan and al-Abla areas east of the city.

The US military has used "B-2 stealth bombers for the 1st time in airstrikes on Yemen,” the television network said.

Yemen's official Saba Net news agency reported that US-British aggression aircraft launched 15 raids on the capital Sana'a and the Sa’ada province.

The agency cited a security source as saying that the aircraft targeted with six raids the areas in the north and south of the capital, and launched nine raids in Sa'ada.

Yemenis have declared their open support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the territory’s Palestinian resistance movements carried out surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the occupying entity.

The Yemeni Armed Forces have said they will not stop their attacks until unrelenting Israeli ground and aerial offensives in Gaza end.

So far, the Israeli regime has killed at least 42,409 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 99,153 others in Gaza. The regime has also intensified its deadly attacks against Lebanon over the past year, killing upwards of 2,300 Lebanese people.

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