Yemen and Iran-backed Iran-backed Hetty rebels are vowing to escalate after the U.S. air strikes to stop rebels from attacking military and commercial vessels in one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors.
The Houthi-ruled Ministry of Health said that the overnight U.S. strike killed at least 53 people, including five women and two children, and injured nearly 100 people in the Sanaa capital and the northern Sada province, a bastion of rebels on the Saudi Arabian border.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told CBS on Sunday: “We don’t control which ships these people can control which ships can pass through.
He said these were not one-time retaliation attacks by the Baini government after the Houthi attack.
U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Saturday to use “overwhelming lethal force” until Huthis stopped the attack and warned that Tehran would be “fully responsible” for their actions.
Husseth repeatedly puts the international transport industry in the Red Sea, trapping the two ships in what they call solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, and Israel is fighting another Iranian ally Hamas.
The attacks stopped when the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire continued to get off work in January (the day before Trump took office), but last week, Husses said they would attack Israeli ships after Israel cuts the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaguesa this month.
Since then, no Houthi attack has been reported.
Overnight is one of the most extensive attacks on Houthis since the war in Gaza began in October 2023.
Trump’s national security adviser Michael Waltz told ABC on Sunday that the strike “was actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and brought them out.” He did not identify them or provide evidence. Rubio said some Houthi facilities have been destroyed.
Houthis’s Politburo said the rebels would respond to the U.S. strike and “escalate”.
The U.S. military launched an air strike on Yemeni-backed Houthi rebel targets on Saturday, with the Houthi-un Health Ministry reporting at least nine civilians were killed. U.S. President Donald Trump said in an online post that he ordered a strike in response to Houthi’s attack on international transport in and around the Red Sea.
Rebels on Sunday claimed that Harry S. officials were on condition of the military operation on anonymity.
A spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for “the greatest restrictions and cessation of all military activities” in a statement, while warning the “serious risks” of the terrible humanitarian situation in Yemen, the poorest Arab world.
Rubio said Houthis has attacked the U.S. Navy “directly” 174 times over the past 18 months and used “guided and precise anti-ship weapons” to target commercial transport 145 times.
The attack triggered the worst battles in the U.S. Navy since World War II.
General Hossein Salami, head of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, denied that his country was involved in Houthis’ attacks, saying it had “no role in formulating national or operating policies.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote on X, urging the United States to stop air strikes and said Washington could not decide on Iran’s foreign policy.
The United States and others have long accused Iran of providing military assistance to the rebels. The U.S. Navy has seized the Iran-made missile parts and said other weapons were tied to Huthis.
The United States, Israel and Britain have previously attacked areas occupied by the Houthi in Yemen, but the new operation is carried out only by the United States, the first strike against Houthis by the second Trump administration.
Harry S. Georgia Cruise Missile Airlines is also operating in the area.
