Yemen’s Houthis say 17 rebels killed in US-led attacks
Al Jazeera
Mourners gathering at public funerals in Sanaa say they remain resolute in their position on Israel’s war on Gaza.
Seventeen Houthi fighters have been killed in United States and British attacks, the Yemeni rebel group has said through its official media, following public funerals in the capital Sanaa.
“The bodies of a number of martyrs of the nation and the armed and security forces who were martyred as a result of the bombing of the American-British aggression were carried through Sanaa today in a solemn funeral procession,” a Houthi official media said on Saturday, listing their names.
The US and United Kingdom have been hitting Houthi targets in Yemen since mid-January, in an attempt to get them to cease their attacks on ships in the Red Sea.
The Iran-backed rebels, who control much of war-torn Yemen including the port of Hodeidah, have been targeting what they say are vessels linked to Israel in response to the war on Gaza.
The US said on Thursday that its military had conducted several raids against missile launchers as Houthi fighters prepared to launch them against commercial shipping and US warships in the Red Sea.
