The Yemeni group Ansar Allah (Houthis) said on Saturday evening that Israeli raids on Hodeidah ports from July 20 to December 19 left losses estimated at around $313 million.
The new statistics were revealed during a press conference held by the Houthi government’s Minister of Transport, Muhammad Qahim, in the presence of Houthi leaders and the team of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement ( UNMHA), regarding the repercussions of Israeli targeting. from the ports of Hodeidah, Saleef and Ras Issa.
A statement – issued during the press conference – explains that the Red Sea Ports Corporation is still suffering from the consequences of the damage caused by the Israeli raids on the three ports of Hodeidah.
He said the recent Israeli raids caused serious damage to equipment and infrastructure at the Hodeidah port, affecting the ships’ overhead cranes, power plant and auxiliary crane tugs, with total losses estimated at around 313 million. dollars.
The declaration considers the destruction of Yemeni ports as a blatant violation of the principles and provisions of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, including the four Geneva Conventions and the protocols annexed thereto, which criminalize the targeting of facilities essential to the population. such as ports and economic facilities, as they are among the civilian objects that are prohibited from being targeted.
New American raids
The US Central Command (Centcom) announced the implementation of “precision” airstrikes on a missile storage facility and a command and control facility run by the Ansar Allah (Houthis) group in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa .
US Central Command said Saturday evening that the strikes were aimed at “disrupting and weakening Houthi operations, including attacks on US warships and commercial vessels in the southern Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab and the Gulf of Aden.
It said – in a statement – that it had bombed “several Houthi drones” and an anti-ship cruise missile over the Red Sea.
He explains that these strikes and operations “involved US Air Force and Navy assets, including FA-18 aircraft”, without mentioning any British participation in them.
For its part, the Ansar Allah (Houthis) group announced that the American-British coalition had launched an air attack on Sanaa on Saturday evening.
The Houthi satellite channel Al-Masirah reported, in a brief news report, “that a US-British air assault targeted the Attan region of Sanaa.”
This comes two days after Sanaa and sites in western Yemen’s Hodeidah governorate, including the port, came under 16 Israeli airstrikes, the Houthis said. Firefighters were trying to control a fire in the Yemeni port of Hodeidah on Saturday, according to Reuters.
And “in solidarity with Gaza” in the face of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, which has left nearly 153,000 Palestinians dead and injured, the Ansar Allah group began, since November of the same year, targeting Israeli cargo ships or ships linked to Israel in the Red Sea with missiles and drones.
In response to these attacks, since the beginning of this year, Washington and London began launching airstrikes on sites in Yemen, to which the group responded by announcing that it now considered all American and British ships among its targets military and that it expanded its attacks. to ships crossing the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean or any other place where its weapons reached.
The Ansar Allah group also launches occasional missile and drone attacks on Israel, some of which have targeted Tel Aviv, and states that stopping its attacks constitutes the end of Israel’s war of annihilation against the Palestinian people in Gaza.