US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported that US Navy destroyed two drones and one ballistic missile fired by the Houthi rebels from their controlled areas in Yemen over the Red Sea on Monday.
The intercepted drones and missile caused no harm to the US-led marine coalition or international commercial ships in the Red Sea, according to CENTCOM.
This comes as the Houthis said on Monday that US and UK warplanes conducted an airstrike on Hodeidah airport in the western province of Hodeidah.
The Houthis have seized a commercial ship, sunk another and claimed to have fired hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones at more than 100 ships in the Red Sea, Bab Al-Mandab Strait, Gulf of Aden and recently in the Indian Ocean since the beginning of their campaign in November.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International has urged the Houthis to free a Yemeni teacher who has been held in a notorious Houthi prison center for over six months.
The international rights group said in a petition addressed to the militia’s chief negotiator, Mohammed Abdul Sallam, that the Houthis abducted Moujib Al-Mikhlafi, a middle-aged educationist and human rights trainer, in October last year while he was traveling to the province of Ibb to give a teacher training course.