A spokesman for the Houthi rebels says the Iran-backed militant group will offer a forceful response to a second, albeit much smaller, series of US airstrikes in Yemen overnight.
Spokesman Nasruldeen Amer told Al Jazeera in Arabic that there were no injuries or “material damage” caused by the latest US action, but that there would be a “firm, strong and effective response.”
The United States targeted a radar facility used by the Houthis in the early hours of Saturday local time, according to a U.S. official. A joint US-UK operation 24 hours earlier struck nearly 30 different locations in an effort to disrupt the Houthis' ability to fire on international shipping lanes in the Red Sea.
Five Houthi fighters were killed in the first wave of attacks and six more were wounded, a statement from the group said on Friday.
The attacks, which the Houthis described as a “brutal aggression,” would not deter Yemen from its stance of solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, the Houthi armed forces said in a statement carried by the Houthi-run television channel Al- Masirah.
CNN's Oren Liebermann contributed reporting.
