The CENTCOM advice states that at approximately 11:59 Yemen time, US Central Command forces conducted strikes on 14 Houthi missiles that were loaded to be fired in Houthi controlled areas in Yemen. CENTCOM added that the strikes, along with other actions taken by US forces, will degrade the Houthi’s capabilities to continue their “reckless” attacks on international and commercial shipping in the Red Sea, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden. Central Command believes that “these same weapons have been used by the Houthis to threaten and attack innocent sailors on international merchant ships transiting the Red Sea.”