The U.S. bombed more than 40 sites in Yemen overnight, including its capital Sanaa, attacking Houthi targets as part of its military campaign against the group, which has been targeting commercial ships in the Red Sea in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Multiple residential homes and shops were targeted by the U.S. air force before dawn on Friday in the provinces of Saada, Marib, al-Jawf and Hodeidah, according to reports from the Houthi-linked Al Masirah TV, which were cited by Al Jazeera.

Other targets included the Sanaa International Airport, which is used for both civilian and military traffic.

According to AFP, several people were wounded, but no deaths have been reported. The U.S. military’s Central Command (CENTCOM), which now has authority from the White House to strike offensively in Yemen without pre-approval, did not immediately acknowledge conducting any raids. Under Biden, CENTCOM offered details on individual strikes, but it has not provided that information in this campaign.

The American military operations were the subject of a massive security breach scandal in the U.S., in which the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic appears to have been accidentally added to a Signal messaging group by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who had created the chat to communicate the details of a U.S. attack on a member of the Houthis on March 15 — an attack that leveled a building and killed 53 people, according to numbers from the Yemen Health Ministry.

This was part of a "larges-scale operation" that CENTOM announced that same day. Houthi attacks on ships have forced global trade companies to reroute their shipping away from the major marine passage, costing international companies greatly.

The Houthis began targeting ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden after Israel launched its deadly military onslaught on Gaza in October 2023, in response to the Hamas-led al-Aqsa Flood operation into southern Israel.