The US Navy has shot down dozens of Houthi drones and missiles since October.Credit:DoD
On Thursday,the Houthis fired a ballistic missile into the Gulf of Aden,which was seen by a commercial ship but did not hit the vessel.
The same day,the rebels,who have carried out dozens of attacks involving drones and missiles since November 19,warned that any American counterstrike would spark a fierce response.
“The response to any American attack will not only be at the level of the operation that was recently carried out with more than 24 drones and several missiles,” said Houthi supreme leader Abdel Malek al-Houthi.
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“It will be greater than that.”
The Houthis saytheir assaults are aimed at stopping Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. But their targets increasingly have little or no connection to Israel.
The UN Security Council passed a resolution this week demanding the Houthis immediately cease their attacks,and implicitly condemning their weapons supplier,Iran.
With AP