At least one person has been killed and nine others sustained injuries when US, British and ‘Israeli’ warplanes carried out a string of airstrikes against various targets across Yemen.

Yemen’s al-Masirah television channel reported that a person was killed and six others were wounded when the joint aerial raids targeted the Red Sea port of Ras Issa in the strategic western province of Hudaydah early on Saturday.

Three other people were injured in attacks on a power station in the Hezyaz neighborhood, south of the capital Sana’a.

A series of airstrikes also hit the Hudaydah port and northern ‘Amran province, al-Masirah TV noted.

The US-British coalition has not commented on the strikes, but the Israeli military announced in a statement that its warplanes had targeted a number of sites on the western Yemeni coast and inland Yemen.

Earlier on Friday, the US, Britain and the Israeli regime announced the launch of their first joint aggression against Yemen.

Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesman for the Yemeni army, later said in a televised statement that Yemen’s armed forces had conducted retaliatory strikes against an American aircraft carrier and several other US warships in response to Washington’s support for the Israeli regime’s war of genocide against the Gaza Strip.

In a statement on Friday, the forces said they targeted the vessels, including the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman, in the northern tip of the Red Sea over the previous 48 hours, using cruise missiles and explosive-laden drones.

“The operation .. succeeded in thwarting a new aerial attack launched against our nation from the carrier,” said the statement, adding, “The attack forced the carrier and its accompanying warships to withdraw from the northern Red Sea region.”

Following Israel’s first joint airstrike with the US and the UK, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Yemen was “paying and will continue to pay a heavy price”.

Israeli minister of military affairs Israel Katz, who observed the aerial assault from the air force command center in Tel Aviv, asserted, “The port of Hudaydah is paralyzed, and the Ras Issa port is ablaze.”

Large parts of Sana’a witnessed power outages after the airstrikes.

Full PressTV report