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Five fighters of the Houthis (Ansar Allah) were killed and six others were wounded as a result of the “American-British aggression” that targeted Yemen on January 12 morning, Brigade General Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the group, said in a statement.
The Houthis, who control much of Yemen’s Red Sea coast, are a part of the so-called “Axis of Resistance” which is led by Iran.
Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Palestinian Gaza Strip, the group has been attacking commercial ships linked to Israel or bound for Israeli ports. It has also engaged directly with the U.S. Navy in the Red Sea, firing anti-ship ballistic missiles and deploying suicide drones against U.S. and UK warships.
United States President Joe Biden said that he ordered the strikes on Yemen “in direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea, while British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the strikes were “necessary and proportionate.”
In a video statement, Brig. Gen. Sari said that a total of 73 strikes targeted the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, as well as the provinces of al-Hudaydah, Taiz and Hajjah.
“The American and British enemies bear full responsibility for its criminal aggression against our Yemeni people, and it will not go unanswered and unpunished,” the spokesman said. “The Yemeni Armed Forces will not hesitate to target sources of threat and all hostile targets on land and at sea in defense of Yemen, its sovereignty and independence.”
The spokesman also stressed that the Houthis will continue to support the Palestinian people by targeting Israel-affiliated ships in the Red and Arab seas.
Earlier, the U.S. said that Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands supported the attack on Yemen, and presented the strikes as part of an international effort to restore the free flow of trade in a key route between Europe and Asia that accounts for about 15 percent of the world’s shipping traffic.
U.S. Air Forces Central Commander Lieutenant General Alex Grynkewich said that U.S. and coalition forces “executed deliberate strikes on over 60 targets at 16 Iranian-backed Houthi militant locations, including command and control nodes, munitions depots, launching systems, production facilities, and air defense radar systems.”
More than 100 precision-guided munitions “of various types” were used in the attack on Yemen, according to the U.S. commander.
The strikes on the Houthis were condemned by Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the Palestinian Hamas Movement, Iran and several Iranian-backed armed factions in Iraq. Several counties also warned from escalation against Yemen, including Russia and China.
The Houthis response to the strikes will be fierce. The battle-hardened group possesses advanced offensive capabilities, including anti-ship weapons with ranges of hundreds of kilometers. The U.S., United Kingdom and other allies could soon find themselves facing another unwinnable war in Yemen.
the attack on yemen is exactly what the israeli zionists were looking for, an expansion of the conflict. more conflict – more profit.
and it was all nicely gift wrapped in last wednesday’s unsc abstention signed… ”to bb, with luv from vp and his zio-oligch chums xx”.
as always, the deep state bypassed all the laws (international laws, u.s. constitution etc.) and started major war thousands miles away from the u.s. it is the same as with the “war on the terror”.
what is different is the fact that arab leaders finally learned that relying on the u.s. will not bring peace and they need to stick with law and namely china and russia. the only hope is that u.s. (and britain lol) will decay faster from within before causing more harm.
deep state…the entire american government establishment is rotten to the core.
yes both usa&uk are just poodles & slaves of the jews. jews use these nations as waffenknechte against muslim nations. they let them bomb muslims in order to save the stinky little parasites-nest called israel from being wiped off the map immediately.
but this trick will not work for long – as more& more people around the world are waking up – realizing that jews are kind of a satanic alien race, a pest on two legs that needs to be eradicated completely, or otherwise will eradicate mankind completely.
the most clever thing to do for iran & yemen would be to give the millions of pro-hamas and pro-yemen muslimeen in europe the hidden order to strike free at all kind of us & uk installations & corporations in europe !!! that move will hit the us & uk where it hurts. at their money !!!
the only problem is that most muslims in europe are sunnys who at best do not care about iran and yemenite shiites at worst want them dead and will cheer the us/ uk.
hamas is in the od situation to be a sunny organisation abandoned by sunny countries and so went into an aliance with shiite iran. weakening iran is higher on the sunny nations agenda then helping people in gaza.
yes & no. if you look at sweden & germany there is both lots of turks&arab somalis (sunnis) and lots of lebanese (shias). also in uk you have pakistanis & afghanis (mostly sunni but also some shias). but regardless if sunni or shia – they hate israel, they hate the us. and lebanese clans are very influencial in sweden, germany, uk etc. so if they put in their weight, it will hurt the usa forces in these countries a lot. iran should give it a try at least.
the blame for this attack lies squarely with rus and prc. their joint failure to veto last wednesday’s u-s motion in the security council gave a big green light to the nato zio-nzis to attack ymn.
well, what comes next? maybe a rus diplomat in the un giving a lecture on ‘international law’? don’t expect any military assistance for ymn, as it might damage rus oil sales to its friends in murica (who no doubt promised rus assets would be unfrozen in return for unsc abstentions).
exactly! it’s always these foul deals the russians & also the iranians make behind closed doors with eigther usa or israel or uk. iran’s ali al-sistani as highest shia cleric in iraq – travelled to london in 2004 (!) while usa & uk where still bombing iraq and made some fishy deal with the usrael-uk empire of terror. and now russia same as with libya didn t veto in in the security council – hence gives green light to the usa&uk to bomb the shit out of yemen. very sad.
ali al-sistani is not from iran but from iraq,
yes, that why i wrote above – quote: iran’s ali al-sistani as highest shia cleric in iraq
you are absolutely right, russia is still complicit and seeks to be accepted by the west, they have an inferiority complex and they suffer from it
but people believe that russia is anti-nwo when that is completely false, just look at how they collaborate with the israelis in syria
agreed, and i have made these points time and again on this forum (including rf allowing nato the time and space to supply weapons to ukr-nzis to prolong the carnage) but too many people here are either in denial or are western shills.
i don’t blame the rus people at all (who always fight valiantly for their values and country), this is 100% the fault of post-glaznost oligarchs who kowtow to the west while pulling the krmln’s strings.
it’s still the same people who advised the tzar wrong to make the people angry, used the anger of the people to kill the tzar and take over, lost power under stalin and when they reclaimed it used it to end the project they once started as bolshevics and create a new one as oligarchs.
exactly, or simply look here, that s so much proves for what you say that even the hardest putin admirer cannot deny it, see: http://alturl.com/iwurk
go houthis!!!! please, oh please sink uncle sam’s ships. 👍
putin should give huties couple hipersonic carrier killers.
they’re trying to distract you from their trial for genocide
yes. damning speech from one of the lawyers, blinne ní ghrálaigh from ireland, representing south africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhswybwgocu
the street court already knows israel is guilty of genocide. any other decision by the icj, especially by the french and british judges, will cause massive protests in britain and france.
the houthis will respond to this aggression accordingly.
“american-british aggression”. the casually lying language of the usa/zionist/western nutcase psychopaths is unbecoming. houthis attacked cargo vessels and the nations they hail from are attacking back. the zionist cabal murdered civilians by the tens of thousands, but the lying is unbecoming coming from anybody.
you are so right. also it is clear the axis of evil usa/israel/uk deliberately target and kill civilians on massive scale, whereas the axis of justice; hezbollah, hamas, houthis. iraq military are selective in their targets, going for military targets and economic targets supporting the mass murdering axis of evil usa/israel/ uk.
usa and uk leaders absolute bastards, bombing and killing people, again!, instead taking easy peaceful paths like stop giving isreal weapons and sit down and negotiate settlements! but american and british governments are so primitive, they do not have the intellectual capacity to negotiate, so they bomb and kill instead.
ok, than ill put a fine bottle of champagne in my fridge, to be ready to cheer after the houthis sink the first ship of the americunts or the monkey islanders.
lmfao and what did they achieved? nothing, watch as houthis launch more attacks on them.
people are such morons, ksa, uea, us, israel, uk, france and many other western countries help wahhabis to kill yemenis – after 10+ years of bombing… they think this would change anything? lol.
us, uk, with support from australia, the netherlands, bahrain, and canada, initiated strikes inside yemen, as per pentagon correspondent for politico. remember these countries.
the netherlands are the j e w of europe. i hope that in all dese here noted terrorists suppoprting countrys the explosions will harm well and the people will start killing there zio-lover regimes.
great satan and little satan team-up again for more war crimes in one of their last hurrahs together.
i suppose we’re all waiting for a houthi missile to find its mark now. it’s bout goddamn time no?
where are russian and chinese drones to help the huthis target us and uk ships.
according to western polititians using western drones to help ukraine target russian
ships is fine so give them a taste of their own medizine.
seems there are many morons in the western military and strategy decision centers.
redirectig bigger parts of the military aid from ukraine to israel, they weakened the ukros and reduced ongoing theyr missile and ammo stocks.
with this new war this whole situation will become worse, morons doing moronic things.
and the houthis are a serious enemy, so lets await what theyr respose will be.
apart from that again illegal, without us congress hearing and without un mandate.
at the very highest levels this is about people being upset about the judgement of god – see the ongoing revelations of child rape cabals – and them killing as many people as possible in world chaos, and getting as many people as possible to behave like them, killing innocent people and accepting/acting pedophilia and everything unclean and gross. ie, they are just doing everything they can out of spite, not long-term self interest. morons go along with it though.
sink all usa and british weapon,jet cariers and warships.use anti ship missilles and anti sea land mines
i followed the attack of sa proxies on yemen but these guys can’t be beaten in the mountains. they had several serious victories with incirclements and won enough enemy weapons and munitions for the next 10 years. air defense of the cities was not their strongest point, but maybe this changes. there will be no invasion of western forces because it means too many body bags. local proxies will also fail again as tried already by sa.
sadly, it will probably take sending an u.s. navy warship to the bottom of the red sea. i don’t know what else will get the american people to wake up. the joke of a biden administration has put themselves in a corner, of which they cannot get out of. those missile strikes did nothing to stop the houthi. this will only escalate further.