Ahmad 
A joint US-British statement said US and British forces carried out strikes on 18 Houthi targets in Yemen.
“The necessary and proportionate strikes specifically targeted 18 Houthi targets in eight locations in Yemen linked to underground weapons storage facilities, missile storage facilities, unidirectional attack unmanned aerial systems, air defense systems, radars, and helicopters,” the joint statement said.
The statement was signed by Australia, Bahrain, Denmark, Canada, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, which provided unspecified “support” for the new series of strikes.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said after the strikes that “the United States will not hesitate to take action as needed, to defend lives and the free flow of trade in one of the world’s most important waterways.”
“We will continue to make clear to the Houthis that they will bear the consequences if they do not stop their unlawful attacks that harm Middle Eastern economies, cause environmental damage, and disrupt the delivery of humanitarian aid to Yemen and other countries,” Austin said.
For its part, the Houthi-led channel “Al-Masira” said on Saturday that the Yemeni capital Sanaa was subjected to US-British raids.
The channel quoted an unnamed Houthi military source as saying: “The renewed raids of US-British aggression are a desperate attempt to prevent Yemen from supporting the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”