Alwaght- The US and its ally Britain launched new airstrikes in Yemen's Hudaydah port city as a latest in a series of assaults of the country.
The attacks comes a day after Ansarullah Movement of Yemen said it launched retaliatory attacks on American ships in Gulf of Aden and two days after it sank a British ship violating anti-Israeli ban.
The al-Masirah television network reported three airstrikes on Ras Issa area in Hudaydah’s a-Salif district late on Wednesday.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said that its warplanes carried out four airstrikes, targeting "seven mobile anti-ship cruise missiles and one anti-ship missile launcher."
Targets "presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and the US Navy ships," the statement claimed.
Since last year, the US and its ally Britain formed a naval alliance to protect Israeli interests as Ansarullah imposed a ban on Israeli ports and ships in solidarity with Gaza.
They launched several illegal airstrikes on Yemen so far under the ruse of protection of international navigation, despite Sana'a assurances that the Red Sea ban only targets Israeli regime and that ships of other countries can freely sail.
The confrontation has witnessed an escalation since Tuesday when Ansarullah used an underwater drone to attack a British ship, causing it to sink less than a day later.
Several countries condemned the anti-Yemeni strikes, calling them violating international laws.
In a statement on February 4, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani categorically condemned airstrikes by the US and the Britain against Yemen.
Denouncing the strikes as a recurrent violation of Yemen’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and international law, the spokesman warned that the continuation of such arbitrary measures is a blatant act of adventurism that poses a worrying threat to international peace and security.
Russia and China also condemned the aggression.
Kremlin condemned the military strikes on Yemen, which Moscow said amounted to an irresponsible adventure that risked sowing chaos across the entire region.
"We strongly condemn these irresponsible actions by the United States and its allies," Maria Zakharova, Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman, told reporters.
"A large-scale military escalation in the Red Sea region could strike out the positive trends that have emerged recently in the Yemeni settlement process, as well as provoke a destabilisation of the situation throughout the Middle East."
