Dozens of US airstrikes hit Yemen on Tuesday, a day after US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth threatened the US would escalate its bombing campaign.
According to the Anadolu Agency, the Houthis reported that 22 US airstrikes hit Yemen on Tuesday, including 11 in the northern Saada province, nine in the central Marib province, and two in the Red Sea province of Hodeidah. More US strikes were reported in the provinces of Dhmar and Ibb.
Yemen’s SABA news agency reported that US strikes in Hodeidah on Tuesday night hit residential areas. According to the local authority in Hodeidah, four civilians were killed by the US strikes, and others were wounded. Women and children were among the casualties.
Residential buildings have been a frequent target of US airstrikes, and the bombing campaign has taken a heavy toll on Yemeni civilians.
The heavy US airstrikes on Tuesday came after Hegseth vowed the situation would get “worse” for Yemen’s Houthis, who are officially known as Ansar Allah. “It’s been a bad three weeks for the Houthis, and it’s about to get a lot worse,” Hegseth said during President Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hegseth claimed it has been a “devastating campaign” for the Houthis despite reports that the airstrikes have only had limited success in destroying Houthi weapons and underground military infrastructure.
During the meeting, President Trump also claimed the bombing campaign has been successful but acknowledged that the Houthis’ missile program was “highly sophisticated” and that the weapons were made inside Yemen, which goes against the narrative that they’re reliant on Iran for weapons.
“We’ve really hit them hard. Night after night, and we’ve gotten many of their leaders and their experts. They’re experts on missiles. I mean, they actually make missiles. Nobody thought that, but they make missiles. It’s highly sophisticated,” Trump said.
Hegseth said the bombing campaign would “only get more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships.”
The Houthis did stop shooting at US ships once a ceasefire was declared in Gaza on January 19 and only restarted attacks once the US relaunched its bombing campaign in Yemen on March 15.
The US restarted the bombing campaign after the Houthis announced they would reimpose a blockade on Israeli shipping in the region in response to Israel’s Gaza ceasefire violations. The Houthis have maintained that the only way they will stop their attacks now is if there’s another ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory.
Four more civilian dead, 22 terror-bombings overnight, in a years-long illegal, unconstitutional terror-war for Daddy Israel that continues no matter which puppet president takes orders from Tel Aviv. Obviously bombing the world's poorest country is not "very effective" if you 'need' to keep doing it. Americans have no pride, no shame and no clue.
And no honor.
You are correct, as the Houthis only allegiance is to their own personal brand of Islam backed by Mullahs of Iran. Is that what you honor, while they have murdered many Yemenis and indiscriminately attacked the ships of many nations in international shipping lanes.
B*ll SH*T
Americans are still roughly 50/50 divided on the Israel and Middle East issues. Hegseth, Huckabee and most Evangelicals go by the Old Testament and according to them they are winning for a Greater Israel, that God will bless them and anyone that is against Israel will be punished (slaughtered) by god.
Their bloodlust comes from old fanatical religious doctrines. we have seen it throughout history.
By Americans, as in this case, we really mean our morally and greedy bankrupt elite and their manipulated followers.
Most or many Americans are ill informed and busy working two jobs putting food on the table and paying for childcare and medical bills.
the kind of issues politicians don't like to mention.
You didn't care when the Houthis were killing innocent civilian and you did not make any noise when the Houthi movement, an Iran-backed Zaydi Shia Islamist militant organization tarted attacking international merchant ships at sea. But suddenly you find outrage for those trying to put a stop to those hiding behind human shields.
Every life is valuable, so why post your phony outrage and then blame Israel when Houthis have indiscriminately attacked the ships of many nations with no connection to Israel in international shipping lanes.
What civilians did the Houthis kill? Pray tell. It can't be anything close to the savagery displayed by your buddies the IDF. If you have any integrity you will look at the WHOLE situation and the history involved here before passing ANY judgment, which obviously you have failed to do!
"f you have any integrity you will look at the WHOLE situation and the history involved" Have you done the same?
It is a black and white affaire, not shades of gray, the war crimes of the Israelis and the USA are in front of us, in our faces in broad daylight. There is no mistaking the cruelty of the civilized Israelis and Americans and the supporters like Germany.
I don't finance the Houthis instead of paying for my own healthcare. So there's that.
Are you at least paid to back genocide in a Bangalore call center or did Israel get you to whitewash their fence for free like a dunce?
the Houthis are legal resistance not like the illegal IDF OCCUPIERS in Gaza and the WB, they are war criminals, a band of terrorists, led by Trump now after Biden and Netanyahu, the same is true for American pilots bombing civilians in Yemen, maybe I missed something and Yemen did attack the USA. Get ready for war with Iran, the Iranians are about to invade the USA.
If you’re against Leftist use of violence, and see it as them saying their use of violence is the only correct kind, surely you aren’t supportive of Rightwing violence, right? Because the Right has the same mental problem as the Left, and also thinks only their violence is the correct kind.
Houthis also hit US ships pretty hard Mr. president…!
What US ships were hit? Get real. If a Houthis missile did hit a US ship, that fact would be known quickly. With 10,000 sailors in a task force, someone would tell someone back home.
The peace president loves to slaughter people. He actually goes out and brags when he kills people like during his first term. Made a big deal out of killing an Irani general without declaring war. Now he is happy that we kill Houthis again without declaring war. And if Iran does not listen to the emperor they will see hell reigning down on them form the mighty US butchers.
He did make a big deal and then panic when Iran hit back. Lucky the commander of the US troops was smart enough to evacuate the base just after the last satellite images where downloaded to Iran and before Iran fired their missiles. Over 50 aircraft left and 1000s of troops when into the desert, leaving only the mission critical troops at the base. It also help that US knew that Iran was fueling their liquid fueled rockets, so US had a good idea when they were going to be fired.
Thus no American's died in the Iran counter attack.
It also helped that Iran delivered a warning to the US forces that it was about to attack via Iraqi officials before launching.
That is how I recall the news of the time.
Are you sure, Trump is a liar he always was and still is.
We are being ruled by mass-murders, Trump and Netanyahu and their cabals make a formidable team. That is true of almost all Western advanced so-called democracies. What a shame they are.
ME: Hegseth just could not wait to kill Muslims.
LEFTISTS: Religion had nothing to do with it!
Got to get rid of the Houthis and their insurgency who gained power after the authorities tried to arrest their religious leader. It's difficult to pinpoint an exact number of deaths directly attributable to the Houthis, but the Yemeni civil war, in which they are a major combatant, has resulted in the deaths of over 150,000 people, with estimates of over 227,000 more dying due to famine and lack of healthcare.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement has become one of the Middle East’s most potent non-state actors, with the confidence to indiscriminately attack the ships of many nations in international shipping lanes.
Interesting sentence that begins without a noun or pronoun and goes straight to the verb. Is this a Hebrew thing? Who exactly has "got to" murder their way across Yemen for your pleasure?
Oh you are giving grammar lesions? Sign me up. I can use the help.
The Houthis are not non-state actors. They’re the primary state gang in Yemen since Hadi resigned in 2015 (then fled the country and got the Saudis to try to reinstall him as their quisling).