The U.S. renewed airstrikes against terrorist targets amid reports that the Pentagon was deploying more stealth bombers within striking range of Houthi-controlled Yemen, media reports on Saturday indicate.
“Suspected U.S. airstrikes pounded Yemen overnight into Saturday, reportedly killing at least one person as the American military acknowledged earlier bombing a major military site in the heart of Sanaa controlled by the Houthi rebels,” the Associated Press reported. “The strikes into Saturday targeted multiple areas in Yemen under the control of the Iranian-backed Houthis, including the capital, Sanaa, and in the governorates of al-Jawf and Saada, rebel-controlled media reported.”
Long-range bombers were being moved to the U.S. military base in Diego Garcia located in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, new reports suggest. “The U.S. has deployed heavy, radar-evading B-2 bombers to the Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean, a warning to Iran and Yemen’s Houthi militia that American airstrikes could become more intense if Houthi attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping don’t stop,” the Wall Street Journal noted Thursday.
Additional warplanes were underway, the British newspaper Telegraph reported:
The United States has deployed stealth bombers to the Diego Garcia military base, in a warning to Iran and its rebel proxies.At least three B-2 spirit bombers have already arrived at the strategic US-UK outpost, according to satellite imagery.Another four jets are believed to be on their way, according to unconfirmed Open Source Intelligence reports.The island puts Iran and Yemen in range of US planes. (…) A military source told The Telegraph that the B-2 stealth jets had been deployed to help protect international shipping lanes but were unlikely to be involved in carrying out bombing raids. (…)Dubbed the “ghosts of the sky”, the B-2 bombers are capable of slipping past the most advanced air defences and deliver deadly payloads with surgical precision.
Saturday’s bombing raids are the latest in the series of airstrikes on Yemen after President Donald Trump in mid-March ordered “decisive and powerful military action” against Houthis, an Iranian proxy terrorist group. Since October 7, 2023, Houthis have been trying to impose a maritime embargo on Israel — hijacking and sinking Western-owned cargo ships in the Red Sea, a crucial waterway connecting Europe to Asia.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) hit terrorist targets in Beirut and southern Lebanon after the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group fired rockets toward northern Israel. The Israeli fighter jets were “carrying out a wave of strikes on Hezbollah targets in the south of the country, and later that afternoon brought down a building it claimed was used by the terror group’s drone unit in southern Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh,” The Times of Israel reported.
The IDF confirmed Friday afternoon that rockets “were fired from Lebanon toward the Upper Galilee area in northern Israel.”
With Hezbollah violating a four-month-old ceasefire, the Israeli armed forces were targeting terrorist militia forces and infrastructure in southern Lebanon. “This attack constitutes a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon and poses a direct threat to the civilians of the State of Israel,” the IDF warned.
“Over the past few hours, the IDF struck Hezbollah command centers, terrorist infrastructure sites, launchers, and terrorists in southern Lebanon,” the Israeli military said in a statement Friday.
Israeli airstrikes also destroyed a drone storage site in Beirut. “IDF struck a terrorist infrastructure site used to store UAVs by Hezbollah’s Aerial Unit (127) in the area of Dahieh, a key Hezbollah terrorist stronghold in Beirut,” the military confirmed in a separate statement.
The IDF is widening the ground operation in southern Gaza after Hamas terrorists fired mortars at Israeli troops near the Khan Yunis area. The military on Saturday called for the evacuation of parts of Khan Yunis as it prepares to target Hamas terrorist capabilities.
Israel renewed its military operation after Hamas last week rejected a U.S. ceasefire proposal and refused to negotiate the release of remaining hostages in its captivity since October 7, 2023.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
The IDF struck a mortar launch site in Khan Yunis, which had launched the three mortars at IDF troops operating in the area earlier on Saturday, the IDF announced. There had been no IDF injuries in the incident.The IDF’s Arabic spokesman, Col. Avichay Adraee, earlier instructed southern Gaza residents to evacuate from Abbasan, Al-Qarara, and Khirbet Khaza’a.”This is an early warning before an attack. The terrorist organizations are repeatedly launching rockets from among the civilians. This area has been warned many times. For your safety, you must immediately evacuate west to the shelters in the Mu’assi area,” he stated.
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