Prime Minister ‘will not hesitate to protect British interests’ in Red Sea
‘The strikes were taken in self-defence in the face of an ongoing threat that the Houthis pose,’ Rishi Sunak said.
Rishi Sunak has vowed to protect British interests abroad after the RAF carried out strikes against Houthi rebels.
British and US forces struck Houthi targets in Yemen in the fifth combined operation since January.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed it had carried out strikes against the Iran-backed group on Thursday, as a response to attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
The joint British-US airstrikes killed 16 and wounded 35 others, the rebels said this morning, according to AP reports.
This is the highest publicly acknowledged death toll by the rebels from the multiple rounds of strikes carried out over their attacks on shipping, the news agency said.
In a statement on Friday morning, the Prime Minister said: “Last night the RAF successfully conducted a fifth set of strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen alongside the US.
