At least 8 killed in latest US air attacks on Yemen’s capital, Saana

As the US has admitted carrying out more than 800 attacks on targets in Yemen since mid-March, bringing the total of those killed to more than 220 people, according to Houthi-affiliated media reports, at least eight people have been killed and several others have been injured in Sanaa’s capital.

Eight people were killed in a US strike that targeted the Bani al-Harith district north of Sanaa, the country’s capital, early on Monday, according to the Al Masirah TV satellite news channel.

Houthi officials reported that two people had died in an earlier attack on Sanaa and that the US also struck Yemen’s Amran and Saada governorates on Sunday night.

After the attack that targeted the Thaqban area in Bani al-Harith, the news channel reported that there were “Eight martyrs, including children and women.”

A later report from the station claimed that Saada, a detention facility that had been hit by the US bombing, claimed dozens of casualties.

According to a recent list of Houthi announcements on casualties, 228 people have died as a result of US bombing raids in Yemen.

Since March 15, the US military has struck more than 800 targets in Yemen and killed hundreds of rebel fighters, according to a statement released on Sunday.

According to a statement from US military Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees military operations in the Middle East, “these strikes have killed hundreds of Houthi fighters and numerous Houthi leaders.” Additionally, CENTCOM added that the US would continue to bomb Yemen and that it would not make public information about the strikes.

We have purposefully limited disclosure of information about our current or upcoming operations in order to protect operational security, according to CENTCOM.

We are “very deliberate” about how we operate, but we won’t give specifics about what we did or did not do, it continued.

The US’ intense bombing of Yemen, which started on March 15 and has resulted in almost daily attacks, has left civilian casualties.

Due to the Houthis’ attacks on Israel and shipping in the Red Sea, US forces claim they are taking them as targets. In retaliation for Israel’s occupation of Gaza, the Houthis claim that they launched attacks on Israeli-linked Red Sea shipping.

In the most notorious US attack on Yemen to date, the US carried out at least 74 fatalities and inflicted 171 injuries on April 18.

The rise in US attacks also comes as Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Iran, who is a major supporter of the Houthis, into agreeing to a new nuclear deal.

The US is conducting strikes in the Arabian Sea and the USS Carl Vinson, both of which are based in the area, from its two aircraft carriers, the USS Harry S. Truman and USS Carl Vinson.