The US Department of Defense (Pentagon) announced, on Tuesday evening, that the American forces carried out more than a thousand air strikes targeting the sites of the Houthi group in Yemen, since the start of the last escalation.

The Pentagon said that the American strikes in Yemen were able to kill a number of Houthi leaders, including direct officials of the firing of missiles and the aircraft ran towards ships and international interests.

A spokesman for the Pentagon said that the strikes came as part of the efforts to protect international navigation and deter the threats targeting the forces and interests of the United States and its partners in the region.

In the same context, the US State Department stressed that the Houthi attacks hinder global trade routes, and cause severe damage to the international economy, up to billions of dollars, and must stop immediately. Houthi.

Local sources reported that the raids affected the sites of the north, west, east and south of the capital, which led to violent explosions that were heard in separate parts of the capital’s secretariat, amid a state of panic among the population.

Local residents stated that warplanes were poured intensively and low in the sky of Sana'a and a number of neighboring governorates, in conjunction with the implementation of the attacks, at a time when the US Department of Defense or the Central Command (Centcom) has not announced the details of the operation or its goals so far.