Updated on March 16, 2025, at 6:15 pm EST
A major round of US airstrikes that hit Yemen on Saturday killed at least 53 people, including women and children, Yemen’s Health Ministry said on Sunday.
According to Yemen’s SABA news agency, at least five children and two women were among the dead.
Another 98 were wounded by the US bombing, and the Health Ministry said many of the casualties were civilians, while the US is claiming it killed “multiple” leaders of Yemen’s Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah.
A total of 40 US airstrikes were reported to hit Yemen, primarily focusing on the northern Saada governorate. Strikes also hit the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and the governorates of Taiz, Ibb, Dhamar, Al Bayda, Marib, and Hajjah. Targets that were reported hit included power stations, residential areas and homes, and Houthi military sites. The strikes marked the first time the US bombed Yemen under the new Trump administration.
The Houthis announced on Sunday that they fired back, with Yemeni military spokesman Yahya Saree saying the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman was targeted with 18 ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones. A US official later told Reuters that the US military downed 11 drones fired from Yemen and tracked one missile that failed in flight.
Abdul Malik al-Houthi, leader of Ansar Allah, said that in response to the US airstrikes, both US military and commercial vessels in the region will now be targeted by Houthi missiles and drones.
President Trump announced the start of the bombing campaign on Saturday and said the Houthis must stop their attacks on shipping and US warships. However, Ansar Allah hasn’t targeted any ships in months since it ceased attacks once a ceasefire deal was reached in Gaza back in January.
Last week, the Houthis announced that the blockade on Israeli ships was coming back into effect in response to Israel cutting off all aid shipments in Gaza, a blatant violation of the ceasefire deal, but the group hasn’t launched any attacks since then. The Houthis did recently shoot down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone that was flying over Yemen or near its coast.
“The Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated. We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective,” President Trump said on Truth Social.
Trump and other US officials are also justifying the strikes by framing them as a way to protect global shipping, although critics are pointing out that the Red Sea being shut down has a minimal impact on the US.
“What the media won’t tell you is this shipping route is mainly used to get exports from Asia to Europe,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) wrote on X. “Its economic value to the United States is primarily in importing oil from the Middle East, but we can drill our own oil. Most US imports from Asia come via the Pacific.”
The Houthis began targeting Israeli-linked shipping in 2023 in response to the US-backed genocidal war on Gaza. President Biden launched a bombing campaign in Yemen to defend Israeli shipping, which only escalated the situation as the Houthis expanded their targeting of commercial shipping to include American and British ships (the UK joined in on the US airstrikes).
Trump is claiming that Biden’s bombing campaign, which involved hundreds of missile strikes and what US commanders called the largest US naval battle since World War II, was “weak.”
“Joe Biden’s response was pathetically weak, so the unrestrained Houthis just kept going,” Trump said. He also issued a warning to Iran, which the US accuses of strongly backing the Houthis, an allegation Tehran denies.
“To Iran: Support for the Houthi terrorists must end IMMEDIATELY! Do NOT threaten the American People, their President, who has received one of the largest mandates in Presidential History, or Worldwide shipping lanes. If you do, BEWARE, because America will hold you fully accountable and, we won’t be nice about it!” Trump said.
According to Axios, a US official said the Saturday airstrikes “were not a one-off but the start of a series of ‘relentless’ US strikes against the Houthis that are expected to last for days or maybe even weeks.” On Sunday, US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz threatened that the US could hit Iranian targets in Yemen next, though it’s unclear what sort of assets Tehran has in the country.
The Houthis immediately vowed that they would respond to the US strikes. “Targeting civilians proves US weakness; this will not deter us from supporting Gaza but will instead escalate the situation to something even stronger and more severe,” the Yemeni Supreme Political Council said in a statement, according to The Cradle.
During his previous administration, President Trump supported a brutal Saudi/UAE war against the Houthis and used his veto power to kill legislation passed by Congress to end US involvement in the conflict. According to UN numbers, which are considered a low estimate, the US-backed war killed at least 377,000 people, with more than half dying of starvation and disease.
The US-backed Saudi war on Yemen involved a brutal blockade, a heavy bombing campaign, and a ground campaign. During that time, the Houthis only became a more capable fighting force.
I bet Trump couldn't wait to give this strike order satisfying his corrupt ego as butcher-in-chief…!
… and Miriam Adelson, as it were proudly displaying his manhood.
He is getting totally out of hand now, yet the worshipers cheer.
The Worshippers would wake up when they realize that he is making Israel great again instead of US…!
They already retaliated attacking US aircraft carrier Harry Truman…!
Yes, they did. Can you find anything in Western media about it?
Al jazeera reported it. I called them half western half eastern news agency…!
Nothing about the Houthi counter-attack against a US Carrier in the NYT.
NYT is usually quick to publish Zionist propaganda news but not Houthis attacks news…!
Still… nothing. Something bad must have happened that they won't comment on.
Failed attacks may interest active military personnel.
That was months ago, right?
Fresh attacks… Two times…!
Yes, I learned later. TY. 🙁
Most of the missiles missed as it difficult to hit a moving ship with a ballistic missile. Any that were on target were shot down. That is assuming the attack took place as reported.
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Disgusting
I have a problem with this picture. The domesticated or semi domesticated cats are mysterious, smart, self sufficient, sometimes eerie but also loving creatures. They also sense immediately who does not like them.
These cats would not put up with the guy sitting on one of their species controlling it.
US is saying they targeted the Houthis leaders…! I bet their fake intelligence was provided by the Zionist since US doesn’t know iota about Yemen military targets…!
The USA has a very long tradition of massacring civilians in Yemen: first with the Bush & Obama drones, then via the Saudi proxy and now again.
That's not how you get the moral upper ground (which is half way to victory in all cases) but they hide all that behind propaganda and censorship.
Who says that they want the moral upper ground? Getting the upper ground is enough for them. Strongmen normally care little about moral upper ground.
Without the moral upper ground, defeat is very likely. I usually say that it is half way to victory but I’ve heard otherws wiser than me saying that it is 3/4 of victory. In any case without the moral upper ground disloyalty, disaffection and betrayal are almost certain to happen at every step.
You confuse “strong men” with weak bullies.
You underestimate reconnaissance by military satellites.
https://innoter.com/en/articles/us-military-space-satellites/
https://farmonaut.com/remote-sensing/unveiling-the-sky-how-satellites-and-drones-see-through-clouds/
https://news.satnews.com/?s=military
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/are-spy-satellites-really-worth-millions-207045
Biden admitted little intelligence about Houthis operation…! That hasn’t changed for the new administration…!
Whoever believes will be saved. Do you work for a Secret Service?
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/08/yemen-dismantles-uk-saudi-espionage-network-and-continues-to-attack-strategic-us-and-israeli-targets/
https://thecradle.co/articles/yemen-dismantles-extensive-us-israeli-spy-network
https://ye.usembassy.gov/ U.S. Mission to Yemen
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12581 Yemen: Conflict, Red Sea Attacks, and U.S. Policy.
Oh look. Trump is such a peacenik.
Hey, they still believe it. I no longer believed it several month into his first term. But then I was aware a bit more about propaganda and bravado since age 10 when my mother sat me and my friend down educating us about sales pitches adn propaganda. She was an old fashioned sales lady, going door to door. Stuff had to at least work somewhat back then 1928 on.
In defense of genocide, the USA goes genocidal. 🙁
You use the genocide accusation in an exaggerated, uncreditable, false way. This shows that you either misuse the genocide accusation propagandistically, morally or do not understand the genocide convention or have little legal knowledge.
The Gaza Genocide is extremely real, you’re, it seems only taking the side of the new Nazis: the Zionists.
I wish there was a Hell for your terrorist kind.
Hit dogs bark. You fail to recognize the fascistic conditions of the Islamic population in Gaza. I dispute your defamation entirely, because I do not exclude other war crimes. You are arguing hand in hand with the abstruse, propagandist, hatful, demagogic commentator Albert_Bakker and extremely typical fascistic mentality. You first reply to the article on Yemen, to which I reply. Then you switch to Gaza in the discussion. This shows your ideological, frozen, stupid thoughts. If there really is a genocide, which is regularly determined by an independent court, then I certainly do not deny it. At best, I think the situation in Gaza tends towards genocide, carefully argued, without ruling out other war crimes.
https://digital-library.csun.edu/in-our-own-backyard/techniques-propaganda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_Nazi_Germany
https://researchers-admin.westernsydney.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/94885287/uws_61995.pdf Permeating the Human Psyche: The Role of Emotions in Nazi Propaganda
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda?series=1
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00220094221074817 Cultural Intervention in the Spanish Civil War: A Comparative Analysis of Nazi and Fascist.
https://reinventionjournal.org/index.php/reinvention/article/view/1196/1058 An Appraisal of the Work of Gustave Le Bon Within the Case Studies of Fascist Spain (1936–1975) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1414822112 Nazi indoctrination and anti-Semitic beliefs in Germany.
Bye. Zero tolerance to genocide.
Straight out of the playbook of Holocaust denialism. They have that semi-intellectual pseudo-scholarly "revisionists" branch too where they don't argue the Holocaust didn't happen at all, but merely minimize it. There the main argument too is that it has been exaggerated, and they complain about the Holocaust being misused propagandistically to further some political, usually a globalist or liberal agenda and that mainstream historians lack the understanding or have little actual knowledge about the actual history. Revisionists too are convinced they represent not only the intellectual, but also the morally superior party in that "discussion."
You should read the Genocide Convention, it is not that incredibly difficult to understand. Even you might understand it. You might not understand how or where to pick the cherries so that the text is interpretable in such a way that Israel is not committing genocide. I wouldn't advise you to copy the methodology of Holocaust revisionists though. Like Israeli genocide apologetics they have never managed to garner much credibility outside their own hasbara-like circle jerk.
Are you Hitler's propaganda machine?
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goebbels-biography/
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/how-nazi-propaganda-encouraged-the-masses-to-co-produce-a-false-reality.html
https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/educational-resources/
https://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%20Notes/German%20Propaganda.html PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES OF GERMAN FASCISM(1)
https://psu.pb.unizin.org/holocaust3rs/chapter/chapter-1/ Propaganda
https://ia800303.us.archive.org/27/items/MassPsychologyOfFascism-WilhelmReich/mass-psychology-reich.pdf
https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/ Nazi and East German Propaganda.
Evil is evil no revision can change that.
Wars are as evil as any Holocaust or Nakba , nothing can change that.
The people responsible for all the evil they cause will all meet in hell, Hitler and many like him are waiting for the living Hitlers, plural
That is called projection. I was calling you a genocide denier. That is because you denied a genocide. I was by association calling you a Holocaust denier, because you are. That means your life took a turn where you find yourself denying an ongoing genocide. That means you have failed as a human being. It will be extremely hard if not impossible to recover from that and if you ever do I hope the shame will weigh heavy on your bent back for the rest of your days.
You are absolutely, propagandistically, politically, anti-Semitically prejudging Israeli government representatives against the criteria of criminal procedure, because when does an independent court establish the facts of genocide? If there really is a genocide, which is regularly determined by an independent court, then I certainly do not deny it. At best, I think the situation in Gaza tends towards genocide, carefully argued, without ruling out other war crimes.
They bomb where there are civilians, women and children and no air defense, no air-raid shelters. Every individual pilot is a voluntary war criminal.
terrorism definition: The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
Many of the 53 killed were innocent civilians so the attack on Yemen is terrorism, a crime. Trump and others the helped carry out this mission should be arrested by the ICC.
Once more. Remember when:
Trump criticizes White House for Houthi strikes
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/12/trump-houthi-strike-00135294
It's one thing when the President of the USA commits a warcrime. It's quite another when G-d's chosen one, Mad King Donald, kills the Amalekites. Vengeance and wrath explain it all. It says so right in the Old Testament.
Also this view (Jonathan Cook):
Trump would rather strike lucrative deals with Russia's Vladimir Putin over resources—in both Russia and Ukraine—than sink more money into a futile war that locks up the region’s vast potential profits.
And he would rather put an end to Gaza’s decades-long status as a no-go zone, a holding centre for Palestinians, when it could instead be transformed into a playground for the rich, its vast offshore gas reserves finally exploited.
https://www.unz.com/?CommentOrder=ASC
Good article. But at the end… "If he can, Trump will end the slaughter in Gaza by striking a deal with Israel and the Gulf states, over the heads of Hamas and Fatah, to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from their homeland. And if he can get away with it, Trump is ready for something else, too. He’s prepared to break heads at home to ensure his critics can’t stop him and his billionaire pals from getting their way."
This “breaking heads” is being led along right now with the case of Mahmoud Khalil. He has brought on persecution due to speaking out on the Palestine issue and getting involved with various organizations at Columbia U.
He has not been charged with any specific crime but is being held in Louisiana under an obscure statute from 1952, and McCarthy's time, that his activity has “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.” The Secretary of State can apply this stricture to get him deported and Rubio has spoken in a harsh bullying sort of tone on how he deserves this outcome.
Meanwhile, two million people have signed a petition on Khalil's behalf and numerous organizations are taking an interest in this matter related to freedom of speech as a basic right, including for green card holders.
This appears a case of pure harassment and bullying authoritarianism reminding of the Vietnam War when a certain appearance could get you beaten up by the cops while merely walking down the street. We've been seeing an uptick in this harassment-bullying behavior over about the past year with journalists, as with seizing Scott Ritter's passport and detaining Richard Medhurst overnight for no reason.
(I've forgotten other examples but there must be more).
Then on to the students last spring with their encampments and accusations of violence, which were largely violence against them. Raw hypocrisy accompanies this sinister tendency as with Trump and Vance bragging about returning free speech in America.
The Xtian ZioNazis believe something like that, … Genocide Don, "the terrible swift sword".
Yes, and Netanyahu read that passage out loud in English in front of a mike and the media supported it.
Both parties want things done when they are in power especially more war with some exceptions, some of them want more war no matter what party is in power.
A better course of action would have been going to Putin and asking him to ask his Iranian allies to make their Houthis chillout.
Russia already advised Trump against bombing Yemen, but Trump is overdue for a Taliban-style bitch-slapping.. smi2.ru
He is due for something for sure. but at this point it looks like he still has "divine protection" or something else?
I don't think Iran controls the Houthis like our propaganda machine wants us to believe. If at all.
They can't they tell the scum in Tel Aviv to get lost? I forgot, the scum in Tel Aviv tells the brainless scum in DC what to do.
President Musk got his coward points for attacking women and children with Pentagonian goons,
“Which side are you on boys?! Which side?!!!”
An oldie but a goodie….
“Hey! Hey! USA?! How many kids have you killed today?!
My side.
“How many roads must a man walk down?! Before you call him a man?!…”
Or is it only with a gun in his hands?!….
https://www.audible.com/en_US/pd/The-Prophet-Audiobook/B0BVGKNL72?ipRedirectOverride=true&overrideBaseCountry=true&bp_o=true&language=en_US&source_code=GO1PP30DTRIAL54702182591L4&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkN–BhDkARIsAD_mnIrdpW6x0ZUyo-HdMsYMiI3WSEQG_5VNjBtWZhfSg4mdu4O4lYbUrYkaAnAGEALw_wcB
Trump to Biden: "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything_You_Can_Do_(I_Can_Do_Better)
Biden to Trump: "The Fishes And I – Killed More Than I've Cured"
trump is a complete putz. he fooled me once into voting for him in ‘16 w/ some anti-war rhetoric but that was it.
I realized that he was no peace president as well, yet it was all very well hidden from the worshippers because no wars were declared, just missiles were fired into countries and generals killed and the sheep applauded: "good riddance of the thugs"
Houthis declared war on US…! Would Trump remain silent…?!
He will just tell everyone that "all hell will break lose" without declaring war.
True… but the corrupt congress can declare war…! Can he veto a war declaration…?!
In a nutshell, Trump just lost my support. Any human being with AT LEAST half a heart AND mind should feel the same way, regardless of what Trump brings to the table other than his blind support for war criminal Israel!
Trump lost my support during his first term when I realized he was a fake just like Biden in another manner. One only had to really study what he said adn what he did or did not do. Of course the bragging, constant talk how great he and things were, left little room for people to just come up and breathe.
After "warp speed" with military distribution I fired off a few e-mails to the White House. I know, "what good did that do"? Nothing but I got it off my chest.
And he is in office less than two months. It took Biden 4 years, what will be left after 4 years of Trump?
I don't believe it would take that long for Trump…!
That is my fear too.
I don't think he will last 4 years. Some of the Republicans may soon realize that they are losing all respect, their brains and everything, having to bow down and do as the boss and Elon order, or they will be primaried or thrown out.
The deep state is not quite dead and can make Trouble for Trump who chose the shallow state…!
I hope you are right and we can get some sane people with character to replace the mad dogs in power.
First of all, I know there are a lot of Americans posting on here, I share your views, but I think the US (Military Industrial Complex) is the largest and most evil terrorist entity the World has ever known.
Welcome to the enlightenment…!
"The Americans" most of the time we mean the ruling elite, not Americans, the people.
Bombing is the only military action Americans know, bombing civilian structures and people is all they know. And do they whine if a soldier gets hurt. The ruins and rubble of the ME is the result of brainless presidents.
Correction: Bombing defenseless people is the only military action Americans know
MEE live blog reports that an hour ago the Houthis called for a million man march inspired by a 7th century hero and five minutes ago Trump stated that every act by the Houthis is directed by Iran and Iran should prepare for his all-hell solution directly upcoming. This man is a lunatic, not a thinker.
Yes, Trump is the Peace President…..
I am surprised the Noble Peace Prize committee hasn't yet given him the honor like they did for Obama for doing Nothing…!
/satire.
The U.S. guarantees the free flow of commercial shipping but not for the Gaza Strip. Here we are fine with a food and water blockade targeting 2M poeple.
Biden claimed the same guarantee when he made a naval task force of US, UK, France, Holland and Bahrain, if I remember correctly, but a few weeks later said… It's Not Working…!
The problem for America with Trump is that he over plays his hand. His spokesman said we are not invading Yemen or seeking regime change. (code words for his antiwar base), we just want to insure international shipping through the Gulf. The problem is he is bombing one of the poorest countries in the world because they are seeking to prevent a genocide and the starvation of 2 million people. The Middle East is is boiling over and Trump's approach of using American force but claiming he wants peace through strength is a losing formula. What every American should be afraid of is likely to happen. We will see our boys fighting in the Middle East. That's a war we can never win. Period.
The US and Israel are the the biggest terrorist nations on earth, resistance to terrorists like them is justified.
They are nuclear powers using bombs to wage war against women and children. Cowardly war criminals, every pilot is a war criminal.
Trump and Musk, two evil, deranged men, believe they are entitled to own the world. And too many believe it.