The UK Ministry of Defence says an overnight strike hit the Houthi Drone Manufacturing site.
Forces from the US and UK fired a joint air near Yemen’s capital Sanaa.
The UK provided a detailed explanation on Wednesday morning to launch the strike, unlike the US, which has given little details about hundreds of strikes since launching its updated campaign on March 15th.
According to the UK Ministry of Defense, the strike that occurred 15 miles south of Sanaa (15 miles) south of Sanaa (15 miles) was identified as the location where buildings identified by the British Intelligence Report Agency are used to produce drones used in attacks on ships in the Red Sea.
The ministry said the operation was planned to minimize civilian casualties, but no figures were provided.
The US, which has launched repeated strikes over Houthi’s targets over the past month, has yet to comment on the collaboration.
In mid-March, US President Donald Trump ordered the military to launch a “decisive and powerful” strike on the Houches as long as he continues to target transport in the Red Sea.
Since then, the Pentagon says the strike has hit more than 1,000 targets across Yemen.
However, concerns about civilian casualties have risen.
According to Houthi-Afiliated Media, the recent US strike on Monday hit a detention center embracing African immigrants, killing 68 people.
Additionally, SANAA-based rights group Mwatana For Human Rights says it has recorded hundreds more civilian casualties in the recent US attack.
“During more than a decade of armed conflict, Yemeni civilians have been targeted for indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks by fighting political parties,” said Radhya al-Mutawakel, chairman of Mwatana.
“As they wanted to end this bloody chapter of their lives, they now realised themselves as a potential target for the US military attack,” she added.
An unnamed US defense official told Reuters that the Pentagon is aware of the claims of civilian casualties from Monday’s strike and is conducting assessments.
Houthis has been controlling large belts in Yemen for nearly a decade. Since November 2023, they have launched missile and drone attacks on what they say is Israeli-related vessels in the Red Sea, disrupting global supply routes.
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