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United States strikes killed “multiple” leaders of the Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen, the White House announced on March 16, adding that Iran was “put on notice” to stop backing the rebel group and its attacks on Red Sea shipping.
The overnight strikes “actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out,” National Security Advisor Michael Waltz tells ABC News.
“We just hit them with overwhelming force and put Iran on notice that enough is enough,” he said in a separate appearance on Fox News.
The strikes hitt Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen upon orders from President Donald Trump, who said that the large-scale attack was a response to the group’s attacks on shipping. At least 31 people were killed, with more than 100 others wounded.
“To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON’T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. “Do NOT threaten the American People, their President… or Worldwide shipping lanes. If you do, BEWARE, because America will hold you fully accountable and we won’t be nice about it!”
The U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for the operations of American forces in the Middle East, described the large-scale attack as the start of a large-scale operation targeting the Houthis across Yemen. From their side, the Houthis warned that the deadly strikes “will not pass without response.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also confirmed to CBS that the strikes on Yemen will continue until the Houthis no longer have the capability to strike ships.
The Houthis, who are backed by Iran, have attacked Israel and Red Sea shipping throughout the Israeli war on the Hamas Movement in the Gaza Strip.
Nasr el-Din Amer, a spokesperson for the Houthis, told NBC News that most of the casualties from the strikes were women and children. Amer also stressed that the Houthis would continue their operations “until the blockade on Gaza is lifted.”
“We will respond to the recent escalation with further escalation,” he said. “Our response will not be delayed.”
Meanwhile, Hebrew media reported that the Israeli Air Force was on heightened alert for potential missile and drone attacks by the Houthis. The level of alert was already raised by the air force last week, after the Iran-backed group threatened to resume attacks on Israel.
Overnight, a missile was launched from Yemen, which landed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, according to Hebrew media. The IDF is still investigating if the missile was aimed at Israel.
Overall, the U.S. appears to be determined to neutralize the threat posed by the Houthis. While the group has survived hundreds of American, British and Israeli strikes over the past year, the Trump administration will likely use brute force to deter the group.
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and so the last peace of the resistance axis dies. they should have never joined it.
the arms support that iran gave them when the saudis attacked them should have
been repayed in another way.
trump the chump!!!!!!
yep, he is the champion all right.
thanks for acknowledging!
brute force sounds good!
fry me some hooties
lol
don’t bother. next time we will finish your kind once and for good.
we will kyll you and your ilk and wont be very nice about it. muzzle scumm
zyklon b is indeed hellawa invention. to take out two legged roaches like you and your kind.
a very small dragon.
almost as tiny as boshniya.
the gay lands of serbia.
tyou pretty g@y girl from bosnija like arab dyks for your @nus?
if the us wants results, it will require a full-scale conflict. air strikes will not accomplish anything. did israel succeed in gaza? no, only the destruction of civilian infrastructure. hamas is still operating and controls gaza. but does the us control afghanistan or iraq? no. you can conquer a country, but you cannot conquer a people.
no it wont. all the usa needs is a remote control
don’t be stupid, israel did win in gaza and the entire region for that matter, hell israeli assassinated the former president of iran for crying out loud! israel has literally been slaughtering their enemies like cattle and even taunting and making a mockery of their enemies like flying their jets over hassan nasrallah funeral. and back to gaza, to add more insult to injury, israel will deport them to a shitty third world country in africa: israel won, and big time at that!
it did not.
sand ape hunting season is here!!!
heheheh
yes, sand apes are jews.
no the apes are the goat lovers who follow their dog-god yallah yallah
it*s funny because they are apes in sand.
i hope the sand apes in yemen remember how iran abandoned its “greatest ally” syria…heheheh…
do you wanna bet in your sons life that it won’t?
no, he is busy raping your sons
la burned and will continue to do so. that is one heloffa joos lair.
those are apes who r apes?
i wonder if nato would fall apart in the event of a turkish attack on israel? or would donald trump make constantinople christian again?.
turks are ufcked. they like usa dycks
turks attacking israel is as likely as usa, uk, france or germany attacking israel. erdoganists would never attack those who are capable of fighting back, they’re wicked cowards. but if it did happen, christians would get nothing from trump, he would give constantinople to the zionist entity and those who voice disagreement to this would be labeled as “anti-semites”.
what you should be worrying about is the russian federation being invaded, it’s pathetic soldiers captured and killed like fleas. and their nation occupied and balkanized, separated in different smaller regions to be governed. along with its resources plundered and women ravished!
trump will pay more heavily then what biden did. trump think us can do anything but they frgetting yemen is on the main shipping line not us . this war will be more costly for us then gaza . yemen will stay in it place with million men ready to fight in the sea . what eill us do how many strike they will do and how will they save us destroyer and aircraft carrier and how many times .
listen to this butt hurt moshlom wining… lol
better to he a faithful muslim than a satanist in disguise. nobody escapes g*ds judgement.
give the world another pearl harbor and another 9/11 and yet more water polluted cities in the lower 48. make the c*nt states of a inhospitable to non -liveable!