The United States and the Houthi rebels supported in Yemen both advocate for escalation after the US initiated air attacks to distract the rebels from attacks on military and commercial vessels on one of the world’s most prominent ship corridors.
The Houthho Ministry of Health announced that at least 53 people were killed in the United States, including five women and two children, and they wounded almost 100 in the capital of Sana and the northern Province of Saad, the revolt of the rebels on the border with Saudi Arabia.
“We will not have these people who control which ships can go through and who cannot. And so your question is, how long will it last? It will last until it will no longer be able to,” State Secretary Marco Rubio said on Sunday on Sunday.
He said they were not a one -off retaliation, and the Biden administration was conducted after the Houthhi attack.
US President Donald Trump on Saturday vowed to use a “irresistible deadly force” until Houthis stopped attacks and warned that Tehran would be “fully responsible” for his actions.
Houthi repeatedly aimed at international delivery in the Red Sea, sinking two vessels in what they call solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel was at war with Hamas, another Iranian ally.
The attacks stopped when Israel-Hamas stopped the fire in January-day before Trump took a duty-but-al-Last week, Houthis said he would renew the attacks against Israeli vessels after Israel interrupted the course of humanitarian aid this month.
Houthhi attacks have not been reported since.
Night air attacks have been one of the most comprehensive attacks on Houthis since the war in Gaza began in October 2023.
Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Waltz, said on Sunday that the strikes “were actually aiming for several Houthhi leaders and performed them.” He did not identify or provide evidence. Rubio said some Houth objects were destroyed.
Houthis political office said the rebels would respond to US strikes and “get to know escalation with escalation”.
The US army carried out air attacks on the rebel goals of Houthhi rebel on Iran on Saturday, and at least nine civilians were killed in the killed Ministry of Health in Houthhi. In an internet post, US President Donald Trump said he ordered strikes in response to houthi attacks on the international delivery of the UI around the Red Sea.
The rebels claimed on Sunday that they aimed at the US strike by Harry S. Truman carrier with rockets and drones, but two US officials said Associate Press so that they were not following anything. Officials spoke on a condition of anonymity to discuss military operations.
Secretary General UN Secretary -General António Guterres in a statement demanded “the greatest restraint and cessation of all military activities,” warning of “serious risks” to a serious humanitarian situation in Yemen, the poorest nation of the Arab world.
Rubio said that in the past 18 months, Houtis attacked the US Navy “directly” 174 times and aimed commercial delivery 145 times using a “guided precise fight against the ship”.
The attacks have caused the most serious struggles that the US Navy has seen since World War II.
On Sunday, the head of the Iranian paramilitary revolutionary guard, General Hossein Salami, denied that his country was involved in Houthis attacks, saying that “he does not play any role in placing national or operational policies of” militant groups with which it has been federal in the entire region, according to State TV.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, writing on X, called on the US to stop air attacks and said that Washington could not dictate Iranian foreign policy.
The US and others have long accused Iran of providing military assistance to the rebels. The US Navy seized the Iranian missile parts and other weapons that were said to be tied to Houthis.
The USA, Israel and Britain have previously hit areas that are on Yemen, but has carried out a new surgery solely the US, it was the first hit on Houthis under the second Trump administration.
USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, which includes a carrier, three destroyers of the Navy and one cruiser, is in the Red Sea and was part of the mission. The region also operates USS Georgia Cruise Rakeril Submarine.
