In the United States and Iran Houthi rebels In Yemen, both walk after the United States launched air strikes to dissuade rebels from attacking military and commercial ships on one of the most busy shipping corridors in the world.
The Ministry of Health managed by the Houthis said that the US night strikes killed at least 53 people, including five women and two children, and injured nearly 100 in the capital of Sanaa and the northern province of Saada, the bastion of rebels on the border with Saudi Arabia.
“We are not going that these people control which ships can pass and which cannot. And so your question is, how long will it continue? This will continue until they will no longer have the ability to do so, “Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday. He said that it is not occasional reprisals strike that the Biden administration led after the Houthi attacks.
President Donald Trump swore on Saturday to use “an overwhelming mortal force” until the Houths stop their attacks, and warns that Tehran would be held “fully responsible” for their actions.
The Houthis have repeatedly targeted international navigation in the Red Sea, flowing two ships, in what they call acts of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel was at war with Hamas, another Iranian ally.
The attacks stopped when a cease-fire in Israel-Hamas settled in January-one day before Trump took up his duties-but last week, the Houthis declared that they would renew the attacks on Israeli ships after Israel has cut the flow of humanitarian aid in Gaza this month.
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No Houthy attack has been reported since then.
The night air strikes were one of the most extensive attacks against the Houthis since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023.
Trump’s national security advisor Michael Waltz told ABC on Sunday that the strikes “actually targeted several Houthi leaders and withdrew them.” He did not identify them or testified. Rubio said some Houthi installations had been destroyed.
The Houthi political office said the rebels will respond to American strikes and “meet climbing climbing”.
The rebels on Sunday claimed to have targeted USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group with missiles and one drone, but two US officials told the Associated Press that they were following nothing. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations.
The spokesman for the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in a statement provided for “the greatest restraint and the cessation of all military activities”, while warning the “serious risks” of the disastrous humanitarian situation in Yemen, the poorest nation in the Arab world.
Rubio said that during the last 18 months, the Houthis had attacked the US Navy “directly” 174 times and targeted commercial expeditions 145 times using “anti-navire weapons of guided precision”.
The attacks have triggered the most serious fight that the American navy had seen since the Second World War.
Sunday, the head of the Iranian paramilitary revolution guardian, General Hossein Salami, denied that his country was involved in the attacks of the Houthis, affirming that he “does not play any role in the staging of national or operational policies” of the militant groups with which he is ally throughout the region, according to television managed by the State.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, writing on X, urged the United States to stop its air strikes and said Washington could not dictate Iran’s foreign policy.
The United States and others have long accused Iran of having provided military aid to the rebels. The American navy seized pieces of Iranian manufacturing missiles and other weapons which, she said, were intended for the Houthis.
The United States, Israel and Great Britain previously struck the regions held by the Houthis in Yemen, but the new operation was carried out only by the United States, it was the first Houthi strike under the second Trump administration.
The USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, which includes the carrier, three naval destroyers and a cruiser, is in the Red Sea and was part of the mission. The USS Georgia cruise missile submarine also operated in the region.
& Copy 2025 the Canadian press