The US Central Command announced on Thursday that its forces had succeeded in intercepting 4 drones launched by the Houthi group from areas under its control in Yemen on Wednesday.

The US Central Command said in a statement that the forces considered the Houthi marches an imminent threat to them, the coalition forces, and commercial ships.

The Houthi group, which controls the most populated areas in Yemen, has been launching attacks on ships in the waters off the country for several months in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, she said. These attacks forced commercial companies to switch to a longer and more expensive route around Africa.

Since November 19, that is, more than a month after the outbreak of war in Gaza on October 7, the Houthis have targeted more than 100 ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea with drones and missiles, according to what the leader of the Yemeni group, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, announced last month, claiming that they are linked to In Israel or heading to its ports.

Also, these attacks fueled fears that the war between Israel and Hamas would destabilize the Middle East region, especially after Israel struck the Iranian embassy in Damascus early last April, and Tehran responded to this attack by launching more than 300 marches and missiles into Israel. Then Israel attacked military sites inside Iran.