The US military sank three vessels belonging to Yemen’s Houthis during a confrontation in the Red Sea on Sunday, killing 10, as tensions continue to rise in the region due to the US-backed Israeli slaughter in Gaza.
According to US Central Command, four Houthi boats were attacking and attempting to seize the container ship Maersk Hangzhou, which was struck by a missile a day earlier. CENTCOM said helicopters from the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower responded to the Hangzhou’s distress call and then engaged with the Houthi boats.
“In the process of issuing verbal calls to the small boats, the small boats fired upon the US helicopters with crew-served weapons and small arms,” CENTCOM said. “The US Navy helicopters returned fire in self-defense, sinking three of the four small boats, and killing the crews.”
The Houthis, formally known as Ansar Allah, confirmed the incident and said at least 10 of their navy personnel were killed. The Houthis have been launching attacks on Israel-linked shipping in protest of the assault on Gaza and have vowed they won’t back down in the face of the US Navy.
The Houthis said the boats the US attacked were “performing their humanitarian and moral duty… to prevent Israeli ships or those heading to the ports of occupied Palestine from passing through the Red Sea.”
According to Al Maydeen, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the US “bears the consequences and repercussions of this crime” and affirmed that the US military “maneuvers in the Red Sea to protect Israeli vessels will not deter Yemen from fulfilling its religious, moral, and humanitarian duty to support and champion the oppressed in Palestine and Gaza.”
The Times of London reported Sunday that the US and the UK were preparing direct strikes on the Houthis, which would involve bombing Yemen. Such attacks would risk breaking the fragile peace in Yemen between the Houthis and the US-backed Saudi-led coalition that’s held relatively well since April 2022.
According to the Times report, the US and the UK are expected to release a statement later on Sunday warning the Houthis to stop their attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea before or that they would face the “military might of the West.”
While portrayed as “rebels” in Western media, the Houthis have controlled the Yemeni capital of Sanaa since 2014 and govern an area where 70-80% of Yemen’s population lives.
I wonder if this is the same “Military might of the West” that was so successful against the Taliban?
The US ought not help Israel kill Palestinian babies. That is the demand of the Houthis, to stop killing babies.
They are right. The US kills them for it.
Killing all those thousands of babies is a monstrous war crime, and everyone involved is a criminal. It is just like the Nazi camp guards, and justice will finally come to at least some of them, in the fullness of time.
The US ends up killing anyone and anything that gets in our way.
Palestinians ought not to rape;they ought not kill Israeli babies.
This isn’t 1991. People won’t swallow your mainstream media shit without thinking anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXdCd8VPo4g
It’s like the song, I just wonder. Find below: https://x.com/fluxus2/status/1741837325301075985?s=20
The crimes of Stalin,Mao, Madero,Hamas , Chavez,Hezbollah-, all are very real. When I see nude women with bleeding crotches being hauled off with men sitting on top of them,its self obvious what happened.
Funny little man ! Also a lying POS.
I found this on Twitter. It may explain the tenacity of some of those people. See below: https://x.com/fluxus2/status/1741837325301075985?s=20
Wow…!
Either you’re on a payroll or just plain stupid.
Oh “jake” is on a payroll…one of many paid trolls. The funny thing is, these punks are outnumbered like 300-1, and the rest of us aren’t getting paid.. Good luck, hasbara troll
😁
Why should I believe that you aren’t getting paid?
I wish…Who would be paying me ? I don’t think the anti-genocide crowd really needs to pay supporters .. seems to be a lot of us.
You could be right. https://x.com/fluxus2/status/1741837325301075985?s=20
If this genocide don’t convince you that USA is an israeli occupied state, I don’t know what will. Even your police force are trained by the apartheid state. Your taxpayers monies is not for your benifit. Americans are goycows to be milked to death. Nothing more nothing less
Not surprised. Sooner or later a Houthi attack was going to turn deadly. Just how dumb does what have to be to fire on US Navy helicopters?
Just how dumb does what have to be to fire on US Navy helicopters?
Probably smart enough to come up with better weapons to get the job done.
And what would that be?
You fight with what you have, if you’re brave and committed. We’ll see how this turns out in the long term …
Brave people can and many times are still stupid.
In loving memory of a few good rebels who refused to do nothing while bad men prevail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv03V5SVT1w
US Military Sinks Three Houthi Boats
“boats”. $800 billion + of US tax-dollars at work.
I just laughed my A— off!
Fighting pirates that threaten the world’s economy.
“Fighting people threatening the last imperial colony in the middle east”
Fixed it for you, no charge
Returning home does not make you a colonialist,it makes you a liberator.Old hackneyed leftist terms have no bearing in the real world.
Houthis are the barking dog pirates carrying out orders.Pirates should be squashed.
Pirates should be squashed.
But what the Israelies are doing is just fine, right?
Do you expect Israel to lie down and take it after a massacre of their citizens-?
Next time post more guards around the concentration camp, Bibi. Don’t pull them off to defend your settler constituents
Not at all. But the response was a massacre that made the Hamas’ attack look like a pin prick in comparison. Something your sorry ass just can’t seem to comprehend.
I’m starting to wonder about some of these characters: https://x.com/fluxus2/status/1741837325301075985?s=20
Have you once offered a peaceful solution that allows two nations who hate each other to live side by side in safety and peace.I think not.
We were comparing massacres. Me saying Israel’s massacre makes the Hamas massacre look like a pin prick in comparison was very accurate. Do you need some numbers? Whether I have a solution to any issues regarding Hamas and the Israeli government doesn’t change that. But if I put genocide at the top of the list as a solution, and I put “doing nothing” at the bottom of the list, I think I could come up with something to put in between.
Can we get terminology straight. It is not “launching attacks in protest”. Tge group is not “rebels, nor “Houthis”. The entity is Yemen, more specifically North Yemen which was an independent state until US decided t meddle in the 90’s and presided over a shotgun wedding between a functional state (North Yemen) and a collection of Sultanites and Emirates emerging from South Yenen. At present — what counts — both North and South Secessionists are in agreement about the shape of future governance. Saudi Arabia signed as well. Saudis took the peace del to UN for ratification, US objected.
The peace agreement is valid with or without US or UN imprimatur.
Yemen is a legal entity and is not a “group” or “rebels”. They inherited North Yemen military forces.
For anyone who cares, look up history of Zaidi Yemen, not just religious Zaidism. This is an ancient civilization thst built dams for irrigation before Mesopotamia or Egypt. It had a 1000 year dynasty that was toppled in 50’s by a military coup. It has a highly developed agriculture in the mountanoud area that receives Monsoon rains once annually.
US deliberately uses name Houthis, which os just one of many Yemeni clans — this way we are prevented from learning about the region.
And it is a convenient narrative today, As Notth Yemen (capital Sana’a) declared war in Israel -/ this puts US in a difficult situation. It is essentially entering the war against Yemen as a beligerant alligned with Israel.
This is a dangerous step. A slippery slope. Will US join Israel in war on Lebanon? We are actually today at war as Israel’s ally.
It is easy to be dismissive of Yemen, This is a bad judgment — Biden administration should have thought it through. Forming “coalition” to protect Red Sea did not fool anyone. No Red Sea country joined.
Thank you.
Yemen – I salute you 🇾🇪✊
They have a lot of boats and people …. and courage.
“commercial shipping”… Correction: “Israeli-bound Commercial Ships”
“military might”… I am so scared…!
“I am so scared…!” And neither was the captains of three out of four motor boats attacking the ship. How did that turn out for them?
Hey, its Don Julio and Jake rapped up into the persona of Tim Burns again, typing furiously, wanting attention, words sounding (if words to sound) like a foghorn. Nothing but on loud noise, kind of like my dog barking at nothing in my back yard.
Poor vip1730. Can’t stand a different opinion than your own. So you toss out stupid comments like this one. And PS, if you have neighbors, I am sure that they don’t like your stupid dog barking all and night at nothing.
Upvoting your own comment is pretty cheesy, TB.
Did not mean too, I was just seeing who was up voting and I must of click on it and I forgot to pull it back. My bad. i agree with not upvoting my own comment.
We don’t know whether the crews of those boats were scared or not. We can assume, with reasonable certainty, that they knew they were risking their lives but embarked on their mission anyway. That’s normal reality for fighters, everywhere and always.
Humans often believe in causes they consider worth killing or dying for. The Houthis established long ago that they don’t intend to be scared off by “superior” adversaries.
Great “American” sounding name, Tim Burns ..,😅😅😅
So are you saying that if a US citizen happens to have an ethnic name,they are not Americans?
If my name sounds American, great.
Threats of military might. Hmm, is this a new tack???? …………. nope.
“US Military Sinks Three Houthi Boats”: American can’t compete with Russia but it can sink 3 rubber rafts in the Red Sea.
Good job you just proved your uselessness US Navy.
Sorry Dave, REUTERS already upgraded those “Three Houthi Boats” to “THREE SHIPS.” https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/maersk-pauses-red-sea-sailings-after-houthi-attack-container-ship-2023-12-31/
The US goes to war for it’s masters in Tel Aviv…. pathetic.