The Houthis’ political bureau described the attacks as a “war crime.”
When the Houthi’s attacked vital shipping they never thought of the blowback.
- Biggest US military operation in Middle East since Trump took office
- Houthis’ political bureau calls attacks a ‘war crime’
- Trump tells Houthis: Stop or ‘hell will rain down’ on them
- Warns Iran to halt support to Houthis
U.S. airstrikes kill ‘key Houthi leadership’ in Yemen, strikes to continue indefinitely
Back in November, the US and UK “launched multiple airstrikes against targets” at the Houthi stronghold in the Yemen capital of Sana’a, and in “other regions” across the country. It was “in response” to the Houthis’ “operations against Israel,” and their hijacking of the Red Sea. But the Houthis still escalated, and now are facing strong American retaliation. “U.S. airstrikes kill ‘key Houthi leadership’ in Yemen, Mike Waltz says,” NBC News, March 24, 2025:
U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels pounded sites across the country into Monday, with the group saying the one attack in the capital killed at least one person and wounded more than a dozen others.
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Trump Says He Will Continue Bombing Yemen For A ‘Long Time’
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,
President Trump on Wednesday claimed that the US’s daily airstrikes on Yemen have been “very successful” and vowed the bombing campaign would continue for a “long time.”
The US started bombing Yemen again on March 15 in response to the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, announcing they would reimpose a blockade on Israeli shipping due to Israeli ceasefire violations in Gaza.
Since the Trump administration launched the bombing campaign, the Houthis have restarted attacks on US warships and resumed firing missiles at Israel, operations they ceased when the Gaza ceasefire went into effect on January 19. Despite this, President Trump claims the Houthis want “peace.”
“The Houthis are looking to do something. They want to know, ‘How do we stop? How do we stop? How can we have peace?’ The Houthis want peace because they’re getting the hell knocked out of them,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
“They want us to stop so badly… They’ve got to say, ‘No mas.’ But I can only say that the attacks every day, every night… have been very successful beyond our wildest expectations… We’re going to do it for a long time. We can keep it going for a long time,” the president said.
The Houthis’ message has been that they will meet “escalation with escalation” and that their attacks won’t stop unless there is a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli blockade on aid and all other goods entering the Palestinian territory.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that the American aggression will only increase the Yemenis’ steadfastness and resilience, and that the confrontations over the last few days were only the beginning of what will be a gradual expansion of defensive operations in the coming days,” Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on Thursday when announcing new attacks on US warships and on Israel.
Trump also claimed that the Houthis are being “hit harder than they have ever been.” But from 2015 to 2022, the Houthis faced a brutal US-backed Saudi-UAE war against them, which involved a heavy bombing campaign, a blockade, and a ground campaign. Trump supported the war during his first term in office and vetoed a War Powers Resolution passed by Congress that would have ended US involvement in the conflict.
Trump said that President Biden should have attacked the Houthis, disregarding the fact that the Biden administration launched a bombing campaign on Yemen from January 2024 to January 2025. The message from the Trump administration has been that Biden didn’t hit Yemen hard enough, and Trump’s bombing campaign has been far more intense.
The Trump administration’s bombing campaign has taken a heavy toll on civilians, with at least 25 killed in just the first week, according to the Yemen Data Project. The leaked Signal chat that caused controversy this week revealed that top US officials celebrated the flattening of a residential building in Yemen, where National Security Advisor Mike Waltz claimed the Houthis’ “top missile guy” was located.
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The American strikes entered its 10th day without a sign of stopping, part of a campaign by U.S. President Donald Trump targeting the rebel group that threatens maritime trade and Israel while also trying to pressure Iran, the Houthis’ main benefactor.
So far, the U.S. has not offered any specifics on the sites it is striking, though Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz claimed the attacks have “taken out key Houthi leadership, including their head missileer.”…
“We’ve hit their headquarters,” Waltz told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “We’ve hit communications nodes, weapons factories and even some of their over-the-water drone production facilities.”….
As is to be expected, leftist appeasers such as Chatham House are cautioning that US attacks on the Houthis (which are going to continue indefinitely) “will not bring Iran to the negotiating table – but could provoke worse violence.” Chatham House advised “coordinating” with “regional allies in the Gulf.”
The leftist strategy of appeasing jihadists has been tried and proven ad nauseam to be ineffective and dangerous, hence the escalation of the Houthis, Iran and Hamas under the Biden administration. But leftists never learn.
As for “coordinating with regional allies,” this has been ongoing with Israel, but those same alleged allies have also been condemning Israel since October 7, even blaming Israel for Hamas’ savagery, as Israel is slammed as an “occupying” state. Israel has now learned that it needs actually to occupy much more territory. One possibility is taking back land in Gaza that it mistakenly vacated in the vain hope of peace; otherwise, there will no longer be a Jewish state.
The idea that Westerners could provoke jihad aggressors by retaliating against their barbarism is foolish. Being an infidel is what provokes jihadists, as well as the very presence of a Jewish state. So unless you’re willing to convert or be subjugated to Islam and surrender the state of Israel to Islam, jihadists will remain provoked. The Houthis and Iran et al need to be sent a strong message to stop their attacks, or else. The Trump administration is finally sending that message.
The barbaric Houthis terrorized the Red Sea, interrupted shipping, slowed down shipping supplies and murdered innocent people.
Between November 2023 and January of this year, the Houthis had targeted more than 100 merchant vessels, sinking two and killing four sailors. They also launched attacks against US warships, although none have been successfully hit.
Jihadists do not respond to negotiations with infidels; nor do they respond to appeasement. They only pretend to, as they play Westerners for fools to squeeze more money out of them and do more damage. They view Western appeasers as weak, and take weakness as a signal to escalate their jihad.
Iran has already been given a last chance choice by Trump, who stated:
I hope that Iran, and I’ve written them a letter, saying I hope you’re going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily it’s going to be a terrible thing for them.”
Jihadists are the ones who need to stop provoking the West and Israel. Leftists have it backwards.