President Trump warns Houthis, promises intensified the action as US attacks increase in Yemen.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has announced a series of attacks on the huti objectives in Yemen in the most significant military action of his second mandate to date.
At least nine civilians died and nine wounded in the strikes in Sanaa on Saturday, according to the Houthi-administered Ministry of Health of Yemen.
“Your time is over and your attacks must stop, as of today. If they do not, hell will rain as nothing you have seen before, ”Trump said in a statement about Truth Social, his social media site.
“I have ordered the US army today to set a decisive and powerful military operation against Hutis terrorists in Yemen,” Trump added.
“We will use an overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our goal,” he said in the position, accusing the Red Sea shipping group aligned in Iran.
The Hutis, who control much of the country of the Arabian Peninsula, began a campaign aimed at the route of the occupied sea in support of the Palestinians in Gaza after Israel began bombing the roasted enclave.
Trump also told Iran that he had to stop supporting the Hutis immediately. He said that if they will threaten the United States, “the United States will hold it completely and, we will not be pleasant about it!”
Previously, television to Masirah affiliated with Houthi reported attacks in the capital Yemení, Sanaa.
The strikes take place when the armed group announced this week that it would resume attacks against Israeli ships to Israeli ships that Israel could not stop their blockade of punishment of the delivery of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip. The Yemeni group said it was “resuming the prohibition of the passage of all Israeli ships” in the Red Sea.
“Any Israeli ship that tries to violate this prohibition will be directed in the area of operations declared,” he said in a statement on Tuesday. The “prohibition” also covers the Arabic Sea, the Strait of Bab Al-Mandeb and the Gulf of Aden, the group said.
The attacks affected global trade, forcing a significant volume of maritime traffic between Asia and Europe away from the Suez channel to take the trip much longer through Africa.
The group stopped their attacks with unmanned airplanes and missiles, which had attacked vessels with faint Israeli links when Gaza's fire was declared high in January.
But he threatened to resume attacks when Israel blocked all the help in Gaza hit by the war on March 2, hoping to press Hamas to release remaining captives he received in his attack on October 7, 2023.
Earlier this month, the United States designated the Houthi movement, formally known as Ansar Allah, as a “foreign terrorist” organization.
