Houthhi militia in Yemen vowed to take revenge after President Trump ordered At the goals the group controlled, which she said was killed at least 31 people.
The Iranian group said that women and children were killed among those on Saturday, the most significant US military action in the Middle East since Mr. Trump took the post in January.
For over a year, Houthis They launched attacks against Israel and threatened commercial shipping in the Red Sea in solidarity with their allies Hamas, which led on October 7, 2023, an attack on Israel, which embarked on the war in Gaza.
American air attacks were targeting areas under the supervision of a houthhi across Yemen, including the capital, Sana, as well as Saad, Al-Bayd, Hajih and Dhamar Province, according to Houthi-Run Media Channels reports. Strikes killed at least 31 people and wounded 101, “most of whom were children and women”, said Anis al-Assbahispokesman for the Ministry of Health in Houthho.
The accident information could not be checked independently, and the United States did not provide any estimates for the number of people killed or wounded on strikes.
Central command of now -a, which Posted the video From a bomb that leveled buildings in Yemen in Yemen, they said that the United States used precise strikes to “defend US interests, replace enemies and renew the freedom of navigation.”
The American air attacks also aimed at a power plant in the northwestern city of Dahyan, in the Saad Province, which caused the nightly darkening of electricity, the inhabitants said.
Hothi al-Masirah television channel reported that 13 people had been killed and nine other wounded in air attacks on Al-Jerafa, a Sani district, considered the warning of the group. In the province of Saad, in the northwest, 10 people, including four children, were killed when the air attacks hit two buildings, according to the report.
Sana residents shared pictures and videos on social media showing broken windows and fiery balls that were raised from the web locations that were affected. Others published anxious messages while the air attacks hit.
Abdul Rahman Al-Nuerh, a resident of Sana, said the explosions broke the windows of their home and scared four children. “I immediately accepted and comforted them,” Mr. Al-Nuerah said on the phone. “Children and mothers are afraid and still in shock.”
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior Houthy leader, vowed to retaliate against the United States, calling the strikes unjustified. “We will respond to escalation by escalation,” wrote on the social media platform x.
Houthi rebels, who control most of the northern Yemen have had temporarily stopped attacks in the Red Sea When he entered the power of the fire fire in Gaza in January. But last week, they announced that they would target all Israeli ships that violate their ban on Israeli vessels that passed the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, Bab-El-Mandeb and the Bay of Aden.
Bab El-Mandeb is a strait between the horn of Africa and the Middle East, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, which opens into the Arabic sea and the Indian Ocean.
In a statement about his social platform of truth, Mr. Trump said the strikes were also conceived as a warning to Iran, the main support of Houthhis.
“Support for Houthi terrorists must end immediately!” He wrote. He also warned Iran to threaten the United States, saying, “America will consider you fully responsible, and we will not be nice about it!”
Days after taking over duty, Mr. Trump issued Executive command redesign Houthis “foreign terrorist organization”, calling a group of threat to regional security.
The command renewed the mark that was assigned to the group late in the first Trump administration. The Bidana Administration raised the appointment shortly after she took office, in part to facilitate peace negotiations in the Yemeni Civil War.
Last year, the bidet administration marked Houthis a “A specially marked global terrorist” Group – less heavy category – in response to attacks on vessels in the Red Sea.
