US says it fired missiles at Houthi’s latest attack in the Basque Country Houthis News

The White House and the Pentagon admit that they have been shot by U.S. Patriots to prevent an attack on Abu Dhabi.

The U.S. military fired interceptor missiles in response Yemeni Houthi rebel attack Authorities said the United Arab Emirates was targeted.

The Basque Country said on Monday that a ballistic missile fired from Yemen had been detected and destroyed when the Gulf state seized Israeli President Isaac Herzog. It was the third attack in the last two weeks, following the riots on January 24 and January 17, in which three people were killed in an attack on a fuel depot.

Although the Basque military has not accepted US involvement in thwarting the latest missile attack, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday night that the US military had used “Patriot arrests” … [support] The efforts of the armed forces of the Basque Country ”.

He added: “I’d say we’re working pretty hard with them.”

The Pentagon also said that U.S. forces had activated the Patriot missile defense, but that it was the surface cracks in the BAC that struck the missile that was actually entering. He left open the possibility of additional military support for defense.

The intervention expands the involvement of the U.S. in a seven-year war in Yemen between a military coalition led by Houthis and Saudi Arabia, including the BAC. While the U.S. suspended offensive support for the coalition fighting for the government in exile in Yemen, the U.S. is carrying about 2,000 U.S. troops and is an essential operational base for deploying armed drones and covert F-35 fighters.

Asked if U.S. aid would include targets outside the U.S. air base in Al-Dhafra, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby did not rule out further intervention.

“If we help defend our Emirati partners, we will do that,” Kirby said.

US President Joe Biden also referred to the attack on the White House in the White House Visit to the Emir of Qatar According to Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, “America will have the backing of our friends in the region.”

Following the escalation of Houthi’s attacks on the Basque Country, the Saudi-led coalition retaliated by carrying out airstrikes, including in the capital Sanaa, killing dozens of civilians and destroying infrastructure and services.

Amnesty International says a laser bomb used by the Saudi-led coalition They detained a detention center in SaadaIt was manufactured by US defense company Raytheon, which killed 91 people in northwestern Yemen.

This is “the latest piece of evidence from the US-produced use of weapons in possible incidents of war crimes,” he said.

Meanwhile, the United Nations report he said Nearly 2,000 children recruited by the Houthis this week have been killed on the battlefield in the country’s war.

The war in Yemen has become the worst in the world humanitarian crisis, According to the UN. About 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen are currently suffering from acute malnutrition, and 400,000 are expected to be severely malnourished in the coming months, according to UNICEF.