Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree on Monday announced that Yemeni forces fired a drone at Israel and conducted operations against US warships as daily US airstrikes on Yemen have failed to deter Houthi attacks.
The Israeli military said that the Israeli Air Force shot down the Houthi drone before it entered Israeli airspace. Since President Trump began bombing Yemen on March 15, the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, have fired multiple missiles at Israel, which have also been intercepted by Israeli air defenses, but some shrapnel has landed in Israeli territory.
Saree also said that Yemeni forces targeted two US Navy destroyers with several missiles and drones. “In response to the ongoing US aggression against our country and the crimes against our people, our armed forces continue to target enemy warships in the Red Sea carrying out the aggression against our country,” Saree said.
So far, there’s been no indication that a US ship has been hit by a Houthi missile or drone, but the Pentagon has shared virtually no details about the attacks or about US airstrikes on Yemen.
Also on Monday, the US continued to bomb Yemen, with airstrikes reported in the Marib province and in the northern provinces of Sadaa and Hajjah. A day earlier, the US bombing of a civilian home in the capital, Sanaa, killed at least four people, including two women.
While President Trump has been claiming the bombing campaign has been devastating to the Houthis, The New York Times reported that’s not what Pentagon officials have been telling Congress. The report said the US has only had limited success and that the Houthis have reinforced their underground bunker, frustrating the White House.
The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, are notoriously resilient, having survived a brutal US-backed Saudi-UAE war from 2015 to 2022 and a US bombing campaign from January 2024 to January 2025. The Yemeni group has maintained it would only back down if there was an end to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and a lifting of the total Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory.
“This support and assistance will not be ceased until the aggression against Gaza stops and the siege is lifted,” Saree said on Monday.
