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One civilian was injured as a result of the declared raids perpetrated by US and UK military on Sanaa, Yemen, around midnight on May 30th-May 31st, 2024.
According to the statement issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces and posted by the Facebook user Murtada Ahmad Al Mahtouri, four strikes on the capital Sanaa allegedly perpetrated by the US forces and the UK military resulted in one civilian injury.
As only one source reported on the civilian harm in Sanaa, Airwars has graded the civilian harm as weak.
The UK Ministry of Defense released a statement that “On Thursday 30 May, UK forces participated in a joint operation with US forces against Houthi military facilities to degrade their ability to persist with their attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden…Intelligence had confirmed two locations near Hudaydah as being involved with the Houthi anti-shipping attacks, with a number of buildings identified as housing drone ground control facilities and providing storage for very long range drones, as well as surface to air weapons used to impede coalition operations to safeguard shipping in the region. Furthermore, a set of Houthi facilities at Ghulayfiqah, further south on the Yemeni coast, had also been identified as being involved in the command and control of their anti-shipping campaign. Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4s therefore conducted strikes on the target buildings at these three locations, using Paveway IV guided bombs.” This statement did not mention any locations in Sanaa.
US CENTCOM released a statement that ” USCENTCOM forces alongside UK Armed Forces conducted strikes against 13 Houthi targets in Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist-controlled areas of Yemen in self-defense. It was determined that these UAVs and sites presented a threat to U.S. and coalition forces and merchant vessels in the region.” US officials told AP that the strikes hit “a wide range of underground facilities, missile launchers, command and control sites, a Houthi vessel and other facilities” and that “F/A-18 fighter jets involved in the strikes took off from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the Red Sea”.
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Reports of the incident mention the city of Sanaa (صنعاء), for which the generic coordinates are: 15.369000, 44.201744. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.