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Trump announces launch of US strikes on Yemen
In a statement on his social media platform, Truth Social, the US president says the US military has launched a “decisive and powerful military action” against the Houthis in Yemen.
“They have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other ships, aircraft, and drones,” Trump said.
He said Houthi rebels have been targeting US ships, aircraft, soldiers and allies.
“The Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated,” the president said.
“We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective,” Trump added.
His post comes moments after Houthi-linked media outlets in Yemen announced strikes carried out by the US without giving details.
The Houthis said they will attack any Israeli ship that violates the group’s ban on Israeli ships passing through the Red and Arabian seas, the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden.
The leader of the Houthis said the group was resuming its naval operations against Israel because the country did not lift a blockade of aid into Gaza within a four-day deadline set by the group.
US strikes against Yemen’s Houthis could last weeks, official says
An unfolding US military campaign of strikes against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis could last days and maybe weeks, a US official told the Reuters news agency, speaking on condition of anonymity.
President Donald Trump announced the start of the operation earlier on Saturday, warning the Houthi attacks against Red Sea shipping needed to stop or “hell will rain down upon you”.
Trump tells Iran to stop supporting Houthis ‘immediately’
The statement on Truth Social comes as the US president announces military strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
Trump said: “To Iran: Support for the Houthi terrorists must end IMMEDIATELY! Do NOT threaten the American People, their President, who has received one of the largest mandates in Presidential History, or Worldwide shipping lanes.”
“If you do, BEWARE, because America will hold you fully accountable and, we won’t be nice about it!” he added.
The Houthi health ministry said on X that nine people were killed and nine wounded in US strikes on the Houthi-held capital.
Houthis say US strikes in Yemen ‘encourage’ Israel’s ‘unjust siege on Gaza’
The Houthi group have called US strikes on Yemen “blatant aggression”.
“The US raids on Yemen are a blatant aggression against an independent state and encourage the Israeli enemy entity to continue its unjust siege on Gaza,” the group’s spokesman said.
He added: “What the US president claims about a threat to international navigation in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait is incorrect and misleading to international public opinion. The maritime embargo declared by Yemen in support of Gaza is limited only to Israeli navigation until humanitarian aid is delivered to the people of Gaza according to the ceasefire agreement between the Palestinian resistance and the enemy entity.”
The spokesman additionally claimed that the Houthi’s attacks on Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea “came after a four-day deadline for mediators”.
“We confirm that international navigation in the Red Sea will remain safe from the Yemeni side, and that the US raids are a return to the militarisation of the Red Sea, and this is the actual threat to international navigation in the region,” he added.
