Yemen Houthi rebels say there have been new American strikes against them, the number of deaths reaching 53, including five children.
Targets in the areas of Al Jaouf and Hudaydah were affected early on Monday, according to the rebel group, while the US central command said that its forces had continued operations.
The United States has launched what he called a “decisive and powerful” air strike wave On Houthi targets on Saturday as part of the efforts to stop the Houthi attacks against the Red Sea expedition.
Washington says that some Houthi key figures are among the dead, but the group has not confirmed this.
Manager Houthi Abdul Malik al-Houthi said his militants would target American ships in the Red Sea as long as the United States continues his attacks on Yemen.
Update of an earlier report, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health Houthi, Anis Al-Asbahi, posted on X that 53 people had been killed, including “five children and two women”, and that 98 people had been injured.
A father of two children, who gave his name as HMED, told the AFP news agency: “I have lived in Sanaa for 10 years, hearing bombings throughout the war. By God, I have never experienced anything before.”
US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz told ABC News that the strikes on Saturday “targeted several Houthi leaders and took them out”.
He told Fox News: “We just struck them with overwhelming force and put Iran to note that it is enough.”
The American Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, promised an implacable “missile campaign until the Houthi attacks stop.
“I want to be very clear, this campaign concerns the freedom of navigation and recovery of deterrence,” said Hegseth in a business television interview.
The Houthis said that he would continue to target the delivery of the Red Sea until Israel raised his blockade of Gaza and that his forces would respond to strikes.
The rebellious group supported by Iran, which considers Israel its enemy, controls Sanaa and the North West of Yemen, but it is not the internationally recognized government of the country.
The Houthis said they were acting to support the Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and often said – that they target ships only linked to Israel, the United States or the United Kingdom.
Since November 2023, the Houthis have targeted dozens of merchant ships with missiles, drones and small boat attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. They sank two ships, entered a third and killed four crew members.
EPAAnnouncing the strikes on Saturday, Trump said “We will use an overwhelming mortal force until we reached our goal”.
“Funded by Iran, the hugs Houthi fired missiles from American planes and targeted our troops and our allies,” said Trump on social networks, adding that their “hacking, violence and terrorism” had cost “billions” and put lives in danger.
Speaking directly to the Houthis, Trump wrote that if they did not stop, “Hell will rain on you as nothing you have ever seen before”.
But the Houthis were unwavering in their response, saying that the aggression would not decrease their support for the Palestinians.
The Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the US government had “no authority or a business, dictating the Iranian foreign policy”.
“At the end of the support of Israeli genocide and terrorism,” he posted on X on Sunday. “Stop killing Yemenis.”
The Houthis claimed responsibility, without offering evidence, for two attacks on the American aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and several American warships in the Red Sea, calling for reprisals for American strikes.
But an American official told the news agency in Reuters that US war planes killed 11 Houthi drones on Sunday, none of whom approached the Truman. The United States has not yet responded to the second assertion of such a strike.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on Sunday to “the greatest restraint and a cessation of all military activities” in Yemen.
