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Yemen, United Kingdom, Houthis,
2024-01-12 06:53:00
The British Prime Minister described the operation as a limited, necessary and proportionate measure of self-defense. The Netherlands, Canada and Bahrain provided non-operational support.
The British Prime Minister's Office in London announced early Friday that the British Royal Air Force carried out targeted strikes against military facilities of the Houthi rebels in Yemen. According to concurrent information from the British Ministry of Defence, Typhoon fighter aircraft participated in the operation.
In a statement provided by Downing Street, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the military operation launched in cooperation with the United States as a limited, necessary and proportionate act of self-defence.
According to the British Prime Minister, this action was justified by the fact that the 1920s had committed a series of serious and destabilizing attacks against merchant shipping in the Red Sea in recent months, endangering British and other foreign ships. The attacks caused major traffic disruptions on this main trade route, and also led to a rise in the prices of basic commodities.
Despite repeated warnings from the international community, these attacks continued in the 1920s. British and American warships have already been targeted this week, and the situation that has arisen cannot continue in this way any longer, according to the Prime Minister's statement provided by Downing Street.
According to Rishi Sunak
The British Prime Minister stated that the goal of joint action is to reduce the military capabilities of the twenty countries and protect global shipping.
According to the Prime Minister's statement, Great Britain will continue to work to ensure freedom of navigation and unhindered commercial traffic.
The British Royal Navy will continue to patrol the Red Sea as part of an international defense operation to deter the Houthis from further aggression, according to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office in London.
The British Prime Minister held an extraordinary meeting by telephone shortly before the military operation on Friday morning, and also informed Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain's largest opposition force, the Labor Party, and Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Commons, about the next action.
According to information provided by the British Ministry of Defense on Friday morning, four Typhoon FGR4 fighter aircraft and one Voyager aerial refueling aircraft took part in the international action.
The Typhoon unit carried out precise strikes with Paveway IV bombs directed against twenty military facilities.
One of the targets was the Beni area in the northwestern part of Yemen, from which, according to a report by the Ministry of Defense in London on Friday, twenty reconnaissance and attack drones were launched.
British warplanes here targeted a number of buildings that were used for their drone operations in the 1920s.
According to information provided by the Ministry of Defense in London, the other attack target of the British Royal Air Force was the airport in the city of Abs, northwest of Yemen, and based on reconnaissance data, the 20 aircraft launched a robotic maneuver and drones from there towards the Red Sea.
The Ministry stressed that special care was taken during planning the air strikes to reduce the risks to the civilian population, and that the risks were further reduced by carrying out the operation at night.
The Ministry of Defense is still studying the results of the procedure, but based on the announcement
According to the ministry, this measure “clearly demonstrates” Britain’s commitment to protecting the Red Sea shipping route, which handles 15 percent of global shipping traffic and is vital to the global economy.
