The US and the UK launched another round of joint missile strikes in Yemen on Saturday night as the situation in the Red Sea continues to escalate, and the Houthis show no sign of backing down.
US Central Command said strikes were launched against 13 targets in 36 locations in Houthi-controlled Yemen, where most of Yemen’s population lives. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea reported 48 strikes in multiple governorates, including Sanaa, Hodeidah, Taiz, al-Bayda, Hajjah, and Saada.
CENTCOM claimed the strikes hit “multiple underground storage facilities, command and control, missile systems, UAV storage and operations sites, radars, and helicopters.” The command said the bombing was supported by Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.
A few hours later, CENTCOM said it launched another strike against a Houthi anti-ship missile. On Sunday, the command said it launched two rounds of strikes against Houthi anti-ship missiles, bringing the total US rounds of bombings in Yemen to 18 since January 12.
President Biden’s new war against the Houthis has dramatically escalated tensions as the Houthis are now targeting American and British commercial shipping.
Sarea reaffirmed that the US and British attacks will not stop the Houthis from targeting Israel-linked commercial shipping to support Gaza. Before Biden began bombing the Houthis, the group made it clear the only way its attacks on Israeli shipping would stop was if the slaughter in Gaza was brought to an end.
“These attacks will not deter us from our moral, religious and humanitarian stance in support of the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and will not pass without response and punishment,” Sarea wrote on X.
The US backed a Saudi/UAE-led coalition against the Houthis in a brutal war that killed 377,000 people between 2015 and 2022. During that time, the Houthis only became a more formidable fighting force and developed missile and drone technology that gave them the ability to hit Saudi oil infrastructure. A ceasefire between the Saudis and Houthis has held relatively well since April 2022, but the new US bombing campaign threatens the fragile truce.
Yemen is mountainous country. With a capital M. They have learned what others practiced ever since NATO war on Sebia in 1999. Only now such tactics are more sophisticated. Back then cheap microwaves were placed in barren gorges, cliffs and bountain boulders. They were remotely briefly turned on, emulating radar activity. Hundreds of expensive missiles were fired at such countermeasures. Today, decoys and countermeasuresr are part of an on going placement of real assets. Most of electronic intelligence or SIGNIT must be updated continuously to dechifer countermeasures. All these salvos of VERY expensive missils are fired out of frustration. If human intelligence is not available, finding Yemeni assets is a search for a needle in a haystack. Unless US and UK resort to hitting populated areas on the grounds they are all Houthis.
I mean yes. The evidence for this is the fact that the same targeting regime that is now carrying out strikes in Yemen provided the Saudis with the same resolution of targeting data and the Houthis can still operate with impunity. I wonder what conclusion I should draw from this state of affairs?????
Neocon betrayers don’t care. They are more interested in narrative, and they are happy cashing checks on dividends day. Tick tock neocon fascists. Can you keep all your balls in the air or will the American people soon clean house?
Hilarious, the paranoid giant needs help from the UK TO DEAL WITH ONE OF THE POOREST NATIONS. All the expensive modern tools they have and they still can’t do the job alone.
The only thing they know to do is to bomb and kill civilians and leave scorched earth behind.
Polyphemus. thanks Lysistrata.
“… bomb and kill civilians ….” Do camels and donkeys qualify as terrorists?
In this case, yes.
“If human intelligence is not available, finding Yemeni assets is a search for a needle in a haystack. Unless US and UK resort to hitting populated areas on the grounds they are all Houthis” – Bianca.
It’s what they’ve always done Bianca. Fantastic comment.
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“US Central Command said strikes were launched against 13 targets in 36 locations in Houthi-controlled Yemen. . .”
Umm . . . ‘splain that math, please.
LOLOL. We must have had the same math teacher! They actually said “36 targets in 13 locations.”
Yemen, one of the poorest countries on earth and the superpower USA with the biggest and most expensive army on earth needs the support of the UK to bomb the nation. Talking about chicken hawks, afraid of Yemen, the Houthis. Hilarious, if it were not so sad.
Well, Hypocrite, Ukraine is too one of the poorest countries on earth and the superpower Russia with the second biggest and most expensive army on earth needs the support of North Korea, Iran, and China to bomb that nation and you don’t have any issues with that.
You support Russia’s invasion and annexation of Ukraine you d bag Hypocrite.
You should pay attention, the eastern part of Ukraine, the industrial section, is now Russian again.
Ukraine used to be the grain storage, it was not a poor, underdeveloped nation, now it has become a failed state. The USA threw Ukraine under the bus, they will do it to NATO next if the corrupt Europeans don’t wake up. The EU is being deindustrialized, the pipeline sabotage and the Greens did most of the job already. NATO is on the way out, the criminal senile Biden and his neocon team will see to that.
Russia’s a great power, not a super power, and by spend it’s the 3rd, not 2nd, most expensive military; China is 2nd, it spends > 3x Russia and less than 1/3 the US. The US spends 40% of the world’s total military spend and still it and the whole of NATO couldn’t keep Ukraine in 155mm shells.
And finally Ukraine’s GDP in 2021 (before the US maneuvered it into war with Russia) was ranked 59th in the world out of 213 countries. What do you do pull the shite you post out of your behind?
Hitting underground facilities is one thing… destroying them is another…! CENTCOM is attacking blind targets in Yemen…! Yemen has most of their missiles and precious weapons deep in underground facilities…! They surface, attack enemy ships and other targets, and then go back underground…! That is the reason Biden has said bombardment is Not working…!
The Houthis Since 29 November 2023:
29 ships have been attacked in the area, with 13 of those suffering direct strikes from missiles or drones. The attacks have caused major disruptions to global trade, some 12% of which passes through the Red Sea.
Way to go Houthis!
Death to America and now Death to Houthis!
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/SHIPPING-ARMS/lgvdnngeyvo/
It’s a bit early to start drinking, isn’t it?
Does he ever stop, it looks more like 24/7 affair.
The US is helpless without proxies, UK to the rescue, NATO is next, they will need more cannonfodder in Ukraine to get rid of Putin and breaking up the RF.
Don, they need your help, get your gun and get going, your help is needed.