Britain launches 2nd blitz on Houthi rebels with RAF Typhoon jets’ laser guided bombs after attacks on ships in Red Sea

BRITAIN has today launched its second blitz on Houthi rebels after they refused to halt attacks on ships in the Red Sea.

White House officials this evening said RAF Typhoon jets unleashed laser-guided bombs in a joint strike with US forces.

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Britain has launched its second blitz on Houthi rebels, as it did with a RAF Typhoon earlier this month[/caption]

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Huge explosions rang out across 16 locations in Yemen on January 11[/caption]

A jet leaves the Cyprus base headed for Yemen earlier this month

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A RAF Typhoon fighter plane was said to have been used to carry out the strikes today[/caption]

It came just hours after Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden warned the Iranian-backed militants they would strike Yemen again.

The leaders put out the statement after it was revealed elite US commandos were lost at sea on January 11 as they stormed a vessel packed with missile parts from Iran.

ABC News tonight reported the White House said it had staged multiple air strikes.

It’s another dramatic escalation in the crisis that for weeks has been threatening to ignite an all-out war across the Middle East over Israel’s ongoing battle with Hamas.

This is the second blitz, after the first meticulously planned operation earlier this month.

At the time aircraft made their way from Cyprus to Yemen and back in hours, refuelling mid-air after they blitzed the targets.

Earlier this evening the PM and President warned further “targeted military action to degrade Houthi capabilities” is on the table.

During a call with the White House, No10 said the pair “paid tribute to the British and American personnel who are currently working closely together to uphold freedom of navigation and protect lives in the Red Sea”.

The Prime Minister passed on his condolences on the death of two US Navy Seals confirmed today.

“The leaders condemned the surge in violent Houthi attacks on commercial ships transiting the area and undertook to continue efforts alongside international partners to deter and disrupt those attacks. 

“This includes work through the multinational Operation Prosperity Guardian, putting diplomatic pressure on Iran to cease their support of Houthi activity and, as needed, targeted military action to degrade Houthi capabilities.”

More than 60 targets across 16 sites in Yemen were struck ten days ago in a joint US and UK operation.

Jets, warships and submarines were used in attacks on Yemen’s capital Sanaa, as well as four other regions, Sadah, Hodeidah, Taiz, and Dhamar.

Command and control centres, munition stores, launching bases, production facilities and air defence radar systems were wiped out in the attacks, the US said.

In the Janurary 11 strikes western forces led by the UK and US obliterated 60 military targets in total under the cover of darkness, weakening the Iran-backed terror proxy in Yemen.

Laser-guided Tomahawk missiles and Paveway bombs, 1,200mph fighter jets, Reaper drones and destroyers were used alongside the RAF planes.

It was the first time strikes had been launched against the Houthis following months of brutal Red Sea attacks.

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