The Biden administration directed new airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen on Tuesday, as the United States and its ally Israel struggle to halt a campaign of regional assaults by the Iranian-backed militant group.

The more than a dozen strikes in Sana'a and other parts of Yemen are the first major ones since the Navy shot down its own F/A-18F.

The U.S. has launched airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen over the past two days. U.S. Central Command said the U.S. conducted multiple "precision strikes" that hit Houthi targets that the Houthis used to attack American vessels.

The US military on Tuesday said it hit targets in Yemen targeting the Houthi militia, hours after the Iran-backed group launched attacks on Israel. The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said its warships and aircraft attacked a number of Houthi-linked sites,

Gaza Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday that they carried out two operations attacking Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv with a hypersonic ballistic missile and a power station in southern Jerusalem using a ballistic missile,

Yemeni militia Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, has stunned the U.S. with a bold missile attack on Israeli cities. The assault came from the same area that was previously targeted by U.S.-led forces.