The Houthi group in Yemen claimed to have thwarted two planned US aerial attacks on Yemen by targeting the US warships in the Red Sea today, as Washington escalated its air strikes on the poverty-stricken country.

Military spokesman Yahya Saree said Houthi forces have “targeted the hostile US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its affiliated warships in the Red Sea, using several cruise missiles and drones.

“We thwarted two aerial attacks that the enemy was preparing to launch against our country in a confrontation that was the second within the past 24 hours and lasted for several hours.”

He stressed that the group “will not abandon its moral, religious, and humanitarian duties toward the oppressed Palestinian people, no matter the consequences.”