New “US-British attacks” were carried out on Sunday on the port city of Hodeida, in the western region of Yemen controlled by the pro-Iranian Houthi rebels, media close to the movement said, according to AFP.

“Airstrikes by the US-British aggressor hit Hodeidah,” the Houthi rebel news site Ansa Allah reported, following strikes by Washington and London on Friday and Saturday in response to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea in “solidarity” with Palestinians in Gaza. .

Yemen’s Houthi rebels’ media reported new strikes on Yemen on Saturday, a day after US and British bombardment of the movement’s military targets, accused of threatening international shipping in the Red Sea, AFP said.

After British and American strikes on Friday, Houthi rebels fired “at least one missile” but did not hit any ships, the US military said.

In the context of the war between Israel and Hamas, tensions in the Red Sea have increased in recent weeks due to Houthi attacks on shipping in solidarity with the Gaza Strip.

‘No US or coalition strikes’ in Yemen on Sunday (military official)

The United States and its allies fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels were not behind Sunday’s strikes on the port city of Hodeidah, a US military official told AFP.

“There were no US or coalition strikes today,” a US official said on condition of anonymity, shortly after Houthi media reported that “air strikes by the US-British aggressor” had hit Hodeidah.