The first strike of the United States against Yemen’s hutis since Donald Trump assumed the position killed 31 people, the rebels said Sunday, and the president of the United States warned “hell will rain” to the group if he did not stop attacking the shipment.
The Hutíes, who have attacked Israel and the sending of the Red Sea during the bombing of Gaza in Israel, said the children were among those killed.
A AFP The photographer of the capital of the rebels, Sanaa, heard explosions and saw smoke columns.
The attacks against Sanaa, as well as in areas in Saada, Al-Bayda and Raaa, killed at least 31 people and injured 101, “most of whom were children and women,” said the spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Anis Al-Asbahi.
The images in the Houthi media showed the children and a woman among the treaties in an emergency room of a hospital, including a stunned girl with blackened legs wrapped in bandages.
Trump, in a publication on social networks, promised to “use an overwhelming lethal force” to put an end to hutis attacks, which the rebels say they are supportive with Palestinians in Gaza.
“For all Hutis terrorists, their time is over and their attacks must stop, as of today. If they do not, hell will rain as nothing you have seen before! Trump posted on his real social platform.
Trump also warned Iran that he needed to immediately stop support for the group. He said that if they will threatened with the United States: “The United States will hold it completely and, we will not be pleasant about it!”
Developing strikes, that an American official told him Reuters It could continue for weeks: it represents the largest American military operation in the Middle East since Trump assumed the position in January. It occurred when the United States increases the pressure of sanctions on Tehran while trying to take it to the negotiating table on its nuclear program.
The Houthi political office described attacks as a “war crime.”
“Our Yemeni armed forces are fully prepared to respond to climbing with climbing,” he said in a statement.
SANAA residents said the attacks hit a building in a Hutí fortress.
“The explosions were violent and shook the neighborhood as an earthquake. They terrified our women and children, ”said one of the residents, who gave his name as Abdullah Yahia Reuters.
Another attack in a power plant in the city of Dahyan in Saada led to an energy cut, Al-Masirah TV reported today. Dahyan is where Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the enigmatic leader of the hutis, often meets his visitors.
The Houthis, an armed movement that took control of the majority of Yemen in the last decade, have launched dozens of attacks on ships outside their coast since November 2023, interrupting global trade and establishing the United States army in a expensive campaign to intercept missiles and drones that have burned the actions of the United States air defenses.
A Pentagon spokesman said that the Hutis have attacked US warships 174 times and commercial vessels 145 times since 2023. The hutis say that the attacks are solidarity with Palestinians about Israel’s military attack in Gaza with Hamas.
The other allies of Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon, have been severely weakened by Israel since the beginning of Gaza’s conflict. The Bashar al-Assad of Syria, which was closely aligned with Tehran, was overthrown by the rebels in December.
But at all times, Yemen’s hutis have remained resistant and, often, in the offensive, sinking two vessels, taking advantage of another and killing at least four sailors in an offensive that interrupted global shipment, which forced companies to redirect longer and expensive trips around southern Africa.
The American administration of then President Joe Biden had tried to degrade the ability of the hutis to attack vessels outside their coast but limit the actions of the United States.
American officials, who speak on condition of anonymity, say Trump has authorized a more aggressive approach.
It smells through Yemen
The strikes on Saturday were carried out in part by combat planes from the aircraft carrier of Harry S. Truman, which is in the Red Sea, authorities said.
The central command of the US Army, which supervises the troops in the Middle East, described Saturday strikes as the beginning of a large -scale operation in Yemen.
“Huti attacks against US ships and planes (and our troops!) Will not be tolerated; And Iran, his benefactor, is notified, “wrote Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in X.” The freedom of navigation will be restored. “
Trump maintained a much more devastating military action against Yemen.
“The Hutí attack on US ships will not be tolerated. We will use an overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our goal, ”Trump wrote.
On Tuesday, the Hutis said they would resume attacks against the Israeli ships that pass through the Red Sea and the Arabic Sea, the Bab Al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden, ending a period of relative calm from January with the high the fire of Gaza.
I will condemn us
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said that the United States government had “no authority or issue, dictating Iranian foreign policy.”
“Final support for Israeli genocide and terrorism. Stop killing Yemeni people, ”he said in an early X position today.
Iran’s mission before the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the mortal attacks of the United States against the Hutis rebels, saying that they violated international law.
The spokesman of the ESMAEIL BAQAEI Ministry “strongly condemned the brutal air attacks by the United States” in a statement, denouncing them a “serious violation of the principles of the UN Charter.”
American attacks arrived only a few days after a letter was delivered to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Trump, looking for conversations about Iran’s nuclear program.
Khamenei rejected Wednesday to celebrate negotiations with the United States.
Even so, Tehran is increasingly concerned that the growing public anger for economic difficulties can explode in mass protests, four Iranian officials said. Reuters.
Last year, the Israeli attacks Iranian facilities, including missile factories and aerial defenses, in retaliation for the attacks of Iranian missiles and drones, reduced the conventional military capacities of Tehran, according to US officials.
Iran has denied having wanted to develop a nuclear weapon. However, uranium enrichment is dramatically accelerating up to 60 percent purity, near the level of weapons of approximately 90 %, the UN nuclear control agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has warned.
Western states say that there is no need to enrich uranium at such a high level under any civil program and that no other country has done it without producing nuclear bombs. Iran says that its nuclear program is peaceful.
Russia urges us to stop the strikes, participate in the dialogue
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged the United States to stop strike against Yemen Hutis, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Lavrov spoke with the Secretary of State of the United States Marco Rubio by phone, said the Ministry.
“In response to the arguments of the American representative, Sergei Lavrov emphasized the need for an immediate cessation of the use of force and the importance for all parties to participate in the political dialogue to find a solution that avoids more bloodshed,” said the ministry.
In an apparent sign of the United States efforts to improve ties with Russia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke yesterday with Lavrov to inform him about US strikes in Yemen, said the State Department.
Russia has trusted the armament provided by Iran in its war in Ukraine, including missiles and drones, American and Ukrainian officials say.
