Yemen’s Houthis have held a military funeral procession in Sanaa on Monday for nineteen of their fighters they say were killed in recent US-British led strikes.
Honour guards carried the fighters’ green wooden coffins, each adorned with pictures of the deceased. After funeral prayers attended by hundreds of supporters of the group, pick-up trucks carried the coffins for burial.
The Houthi’s Al-Masirah television said on Friday 16 people had been killed and 35 wounded in U.S. and British strikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah province.
The outlet reported that the strikes targeted a radio building in Hodeidah’s Al-Hawk district and port of Salif.
The Houthis, who control Yemen’s capital and most populous areas, have attacked international shipping in the Red Sea since November in solidarity with the Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas militants, drawing U.S. and British retaliatory strikes since February.