Sanaa, Apr 24 (UNI) At least one person was wounded and several houses were damaged in fresh U.S. airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday, witnesses and Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.

Witnesses said that one of the airstrikes hit the front yard of a house in the residential neighborhood of al-Jiraf al-Sharki in northern Sanaa, wounding the person inside the house and causing damage to several adjacent houses.

Also on Thursday morning, the U.S. Central Command confirmed its airstrikes, saying in a post on social media that the continuous operations against Iran-backed Houthis were launched from U.S. aircraft carriers.

The fresh U.S. airstrikes came a day following the Houthis' fresh ballistic missile and drone attacks on Israel on Wednesday, which they claimed were in retaliation for the "Israeli war and blockade on the Gaza Strip."

Tensions between the Houthi group and the U.S. military have escalated since Washington resumed airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen on March 15 to deter the group from targeting Israel and U.S. warships in the Red and Arabian seas.

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