A Al Masira TV, a Houthi spokesman, said the bombings targeted the city of Saada, one of the rebels' main strongholds in northwestern Yemen.
Witnesses reported hearing an explosion in the north of the city, without specifying the target, according to Efe agency.
The last time Washington and London jointly bombed Yemen was on January 22, in an attack against Houthi positions aimed at destroying one of the underground warehouses that held some of the missiles used by the rebels against ships in the Red Sea.
However, two days later, the US bombed Houthi military positions in the port of Ras Isa, north of the port city of Al Hodeidah on the shores of the Red Sea.
Today's bombing, which has not yet been claimed by any Western country, came hours after the Houthis said they attacked a US destroyer in the southern Red Sea with multiple missiles, which they said were “within the boundaries of their sovereignty”. Safety”.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Tuesday that its warship USS Gravely had shot down an anti-ship missile launched by rebels in the Red Sea.
The Houthis, a group backed by Iran and considered terrorists by the United States, have launched hundreds of drone and missile strikes against merchant ships in the Red Sea in retaliation for Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip.
The tension in that stretch of sea has caused 8% of the world's grain trade, 12% of its oil trade and 8% of its international natural gas trade to adjust the world's main shipping lanes to avoid passing through the liquefied area.
Washington and London first bombed Houthi positions on January 12, when they struck about 60 targets in Yemen in response to rebel operations in the Red Sea.
Unprecedented attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7 left around 1,200 dead and more than 200 hostages, according to Israeli officials.
According to data from officials in Gaza, which has been controlled by Hamas since 2007, Tel Aviv's assault on the Palestinian territory has caused more than 26,000 deaths.
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