The death toll from US strikes on Yemen has ascendn to 53, including five children, the Houthi resists’ health ministry shelp.
The US shelp it started a “determined and mighty” wave of air strikes on Houthi concentrates on Saturday, with Plivent Donald Trump citing Houthi aggressions on shipping in the Red Sea as the reason.
Washington shelp some key Houthi figures were among the dead, but the group has not validateed this.
Houthi directer Abdul Malik al-Houthi shelp that his militants would concentrate US ships in the Red Sea as lengthy as the US persists its aggressions on Yemen.
Updating an earlier death toll, Houthi health ministry spokesperson Anis al-Asbahi posted on X that 53 people had been ended including “five children and two women”, and that 98 people had been wounded.
One overweighther of two, who gave his name as Ahmed, tanciaccess the AFP novels agency: “I’ve been living in Sanaa for 10 years, hearing shelling thrawout the war. By God, I’ve never sended anyleang enjoy this before.”
US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz tanciaccess ABC News that Saturday’s strikes “concentrateed multiple Houthi directers and took them out”.
He tanciaccess Fox News: “We fair hit them with overwhelming force and put Iran on watch that enough is enough.”
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed an “unrelenting” missile campaign until the Houthi aggressions stop.
“I want to be very evident, this campaign is about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence,” Hegseth shelp in a televised Fox Business intersee.
The Houthis shelp it would persist to concentrate Red Sea shipping until Israel lifted its blockade of Gaza, and that its forces would react to the strikes.
The Iranian-backed resist group, which ponders Israel its foe, handles Sanaa and the north-west of Yemen, but it is not the country’s internationpartner-recognised handlement.
The Houthis have shelp they are acting in aid of the Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and have claimed – normally inrectifyly – that they are concentrateing ships only joined to Israel, the US or the UK.
Since November 2023, the Houthis have concentrateed dozens of merchant vessels with missiles, drones and petite boat aggressions in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. They have sunk two vessels, seized a third, and ended four crew members.
Announcing Saturday’s strikes, Trump shelp “we will participate overwhelming lethal force until we have accomplishd our objective”.
“Funded by Iran, the Houthi ruffians have fired missiles at US airplan, and concentrateed our Troops and Allies,” Trump shelp on social media, inserting that their “illicit copying, structureility, and radicalism” had cost “billions” and put lives at hazard.
Addressing the Houthis honestly, Trump wrote that if they did not stop, “HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE”.
But the Houthis have been unwavering in their response, saying the aggression would not unintelligentinish their aid for Palestinians.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shelp the US handlement had “no authority, or business, dictating Iranian foreign policy”.
“End aid for Israeli extermination and radicalism,” he posted on X on Sunday. “Stop ending of Yemeni people.”
The Houthis’ military spokesperson shelp on Sunday, without presenting evidence, that the group had concentrateed US airplan carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its warships in the Red Sea with balenumerateic missiles and drones in response to the US aggressions.
But a US official tanciaccess Reuters novels agency that US warset upes stoasty down 11 Houthi drones on Sunday, none of which came shut to the Truman.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday called for “utmost handlet and a cessation of all military activities” in Yemen.
