The terrorist Houthi militia admitted that 16 of its fighters, 15 of whom were officers, were killed in the recent air strikes by the international coalition led by the United States in response to its continuing attacks on international shipping lanes in the Red and Arabian Bahrain and the Gulf of Aden.

Saba, the Houthi version, said that the Houthis, yesterday, Monday, in the capital, Sanaa, carried out the funeral of the bodies of 15 of their combat officers, who fell “as a result of the bombing by American-British aircraft.”

The body of one of its fighters was also held in Hodeidah Governorate, and it was said that he was killed last Thursday evening. 

The Houthi agency published the names of the 15 dead, all of whom were of high military ranks, with one of them holding the rank of major, 10 holding the rank of captain, and 4 holding the rank of first lieutenant, without indicating the place or time of their killing, but it is likely that they were killed in the raids. The latest American and British attacks that targeted the Houthi Coast Guard building in Al-Salif Port in Hodeidah Governorate, last Thursday.

The Houthi militia had previously reported that the victims of these raids were civilians, and said that "16 civilians were killed and 35 others were injured," while the same number, all of them field military commanders, attended funerals.