The United States and the Houthi rebels supported by Iran both escalation swear after the United States launched air strikes to prevent the rebels from attacking military and commercial ships on one of the world’s most busy ship corridors.
The Ministry of Health operated by Houthi said that the overnight strikes killed at least 53 people, including five women and two children, and in the capital Sanaa and the northern province of Saada, almost 100 wounded, the fortress of the rebels on the border with Saudi Arabia.
“We will not have these people check which ships can and which not. And your question is, how long will this take?
He said this was not the one-time retaliation measures that the bidet management carried out according to Houthi attacks.
The US President Donald Trump vowed on Saturday to use “overwhelming fatal strength” until the Houthis stopped attacking and warned that Tehran would be “completely responsible” for her actions.
The Houthis repeatedly focused on international shipping in the Red Sea and sunk two ships in the so -called solidarity files with the Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel was sitting with Hamas in the war.
The attacks stopped when an Israel-Hamas armistice had a day before the office before the office of Trump, but last week the Houthis said they would renew attacks against Israeli ships after Israel cut off the flow of humanitarian aid in Gaza this month.
Since then, no Houthi attacks have been reported.
The air strikes overnight were one of the most extensive attacks against Houthis since the war in Gaza began in October 2023.
Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Waltz, told ABC on Sunday that the strikes “actually aim for several Houthi leaders and took them out”. He did not identify them or gave no evidence. Rubio said some Houthi facilities were destroyed.
The Houthis political office said the rebels will react to the US strikes and “escalate with escalation”.
The US military carried out the air raids on the Houthi rebel destinations in Yemen supported by Iran on Saturday. The Ministry of Health operated by Houthi reported that at least nine civilians had been killed. In an online contribution, US President Donald Trump said that he had ordered the strikes to respond to Houthi attacks on international shipping in and around the Red Sea.
The rebels on Sunday claimed to show the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group with rockets and drones, but two US officials told the Associated Press that they were not pursuing anything. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss military operations.
The spokesman for the UN Secretary General António Guterres called for “extreme reluctance and termination of all military activities”, while he warned of the “severe risks” for the poor humanitarian situation in Yemen, the poorest nation in the Arab world.
Rubio said that the Houthis had attacked the US Navy “174 times directly” in the past 18 months and attacked 145 times with “guided precision anti-ship weapons”.
The attacks triggered the most serious struggle that the US Navy had seen since World War II.
On Sunday, the head of the Iranian revolutionary paramilitary revolutionary protection, General Hossein Salami, was involved in the attacks by Houthis and said that, according to the state television, “no role in determining national or operational politics” of the militant groups that are allied throughout the region.
The Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who wrote about X, asked the United States to hire its air strikes and said Washington could not dictate Iranian foreign policy.
The United States and others have long accused Iran of having provided the rebels military help. The US marine has confiscated Iranian rocket parts and other weapons that she had signed for the Houthis.
The United States, Israel and Great Britain have previously kept in Yemen in Houthi, but the new operation was carried out exclusively by the United States. It was the first strike against the Houthis under the second Trump government.
The USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, which includes the carrier, three Navy destroyers and a cruiser, is located in the Red Sea and was part of the mission. The Uss Georgia Cruise rocket’s USS boat is also in operation in the region.
