Suspected U.S. airstrikes kill a minimum of 6 individuals in Yemen, Houthi rebels say

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Suspected U.S. airstrikes round Yemen’s rebel-held capital killed a minimum of six individuals and wounded 26 in a single day, the Houthis mentioned on Monday (April 14, 2025) as additionally they claimed taking pictures down one other American MQ-9 Reaper drone.

Since its begin practically a month in the past, the extreme marketing campaign of U.S. airstrikes underneath President Donald Trump focusing on the rebels over their assaults on transport in Mideast waters — associated to the Israel-Hamas battle — has killed over 120 individuals, in accordance with casualty figures launched Monday by the Houthis’ Well being Ministry.

Footage aired by the Houthis’ al-Masirah satellite tv for pc information channel confirmed firefighters spraying water on a raging fireplace they described as being sparked by the airstrikes. Rubble littered a road as rescuers carried one individual away from the positioning, which the rebels claimed was a ceramics manufacturing facility within the Bani Matar neighborhood of Sanaa, the capital.

The U.S. navy’s Central Command, which oversees American navy operations, didn’t acknowledge the strikes. That follows a sample for the command, which now has authorisation from the White Home to conduct strikes at will within the marketing campaign that started March 15.

The American navy additionally hasn’t been offering any data on targets hit. The White Home has mentioned over 200 strikes have been carried out up to now.

The Houthis individually claimed Sunday evening they shot down an MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen’s Hajjah governorate, which sits to the northwest of the nation on the Crimson Sea on the nation’s border with Saudi Arabia.

Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, a Houthi navy spokesman, described the downing in a prerecorded video message because the fourth in two weeks by the rebels. Saree mentioned the rebels focused the drone with “a domestically manufactured missile.” The Houthis have surface-to-air missiles — such because the Iranian missile generally known as the 358 — able to downing plane.

Iran denies arming the rebels, although Tehran-manufactured weaponry has been discovered on the battlefield and in sea shipments heading to Yemen for the Shiite Houthi rebels regardless of a United Nations arms embargo.

Normal Atomics Reapers, which value round $30 million apiece, can fly at altitudes over 40,000 ft (12,100 meters) and stay within the air for over 30 hours. They’ve been flown by each the U.S. navy and the CIA for years over Afghanistan, Iraq and now Yemen.

Central Command mentioned it was conscious of “reviews” of the drone being shot down, however didn’t elaborate.

An AP evaluation has discovered the brand new U.S. operation in opposition to the Houthis underneath President Donald Trump seems extra intensive than that underneath former President Joe Biden, as Washington strikes from solely focusing on launch websites to firing at rating personnel and dropping bombs on cities.

The brand new marketing campaign of airstrikes began after the rebels threatened to start focusing on “Israeli” ships once more over Israel blocking assist coming into the Gaza Strip. The rebels have loosely outlined what constitutes an Israeli ship, that means many vessels might be focused.

The Houthis focused greater than 100 service provider vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two of them and killing 4 sailors from November 2023 till January of this 12 months. In addition they launched assaults focusing on American warships with out success.

The U.S. marketing campaign exhibits no indicators of stopping, because the Trump administration has additionally linked its airstrikes on the Houthis to an effort to strain Iran over its quickly advancing nuclear program.