Yemen’s hutis rebels have not taken promising that they will respond to the wave of bombing that on the capital, Saná, and other areas of the country, the United States has launched late on Saturday and that, according to Washington, they are part of a long -distance punishment operation. “This aggression will not remain unanswered and our Yemeni armed forces are ready to respond to the escalation with a major escalation,” the Yemeni group responded in a statement, which holds both the US and the United Kingdom, which has offered logistical support.
This confrontation threatens to reopen hostilities in the Middle East after these dropped into intensity coinciding with the high fire decreed in Gaza since January 19. The attacks on the Hutí guerrillas, sustained by the regime of Iran, allied of Hamas in the Gaza War and a strong enemy of Israel, have resulted, at least 31 dead and a hundred injured, according to local health authorities.
The Tehran regime, considered by the US and Israel the great regional enemy, has also replied claiming the cessation of these attacks on Yemen. “Stop supporting Israeli genocide and terrorism. They stop the Matanza of the Yemeni people, ”said Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who has also noticed through the social network X that the US does not have“ no authority or competence to dictate the Iranian foreign policy ”.
The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hossein Salemi, has implied that the hutis act independently in an attempt to shake any responsibility. “We warn our enemies that they will respond in a decisive and destructive way if they carry out their threats,” Salami has launched, without explicitly citing Trump or the United States, in statements collected by state means. The Lebanese Mild-Milicia Hezbollah, also dependent on Iran, has also condemned Washington’s offensive through a statement.
The American operation was launched a few hours after, at noon on Saturday, Israel carried out the worst bombing over Gaza since the beginning of the truce, causing nine dead in the northern town of Beit Lahia. At the beginning of the week, the Yemeni guerrillas already threatened to resume their attacks after more than a dozen days of blocking humanitarian aid entry to the Palestinian strip by the authorities of the Jewish state, which has also cut the electricity supply.
It is a “decisive and powerful” attack on Yemen, according to the US president Donald Trump, who has directly launched the order. It demonstrates that he has only his eyes – and his armament – in the Palestinian conflict, but tries to impose his vision at the regional level. This is the largest military operation in the Middle East held by the United States since the new president took possession on January 20.
Trump has also taken the occasion to threaten Iran to stop supporting the Hutí guerrillas, which has been attacking ships in the Red Sea for months, a strategic point for world trade. The warnings of the US President also arrive at a time when the new Washington administration wishes to resume negotiations about the Iranian nuclear program. Trump has been addressed to the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Jameneí, who has rejected to establish conversations.
“Overwhelming lethal force”
“We will use a lethal force overwhelmingly until we achieve our goal,” said the Republican president, implying that the operation, for which he has had British logistics aid, remains open. “Financed by Iran, the Hutis thugs have fired missiles against US planes and have attacked our troops and allies,” Trump denounced in his social network Truth, where he adds that his “piracy, violence and terrorism” have cost “billions of dollars.”
The central command of the US army in the region recognizes that the attacks carried out this Saturday from combat aircraft and from the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, which is located in the Red Sea, are part of a large -scale offensive on Yemen. “The Huti attacks against US ships and aircraft (and against our troops!) Will not be tolerated; And Iran, his godfather, is notified, ”said Defense Secretary Pete Hegesh, on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
“The explosions were violent and shook the neighborhood as an earthquake. They terrified our women and children, ”one of the residents, identified as Abdullah Yahia, told Reuters. The offensive has also reached huti military positions in the city of Taiz, southwest of the country, and a power plant in Dahyan.
The Hutí guerrillas controls important areas of Yemen, including the capital of Saná, although it is not part of the government or internationally recognized authority. The rebels have carried out attacks since the first weeks of the Gaza War, which began on October 7, 2023, with the slaughter led by Hamas of about 1,200 people in Israel and the overwhelming response of the Army on the Palestinian Strip, where almost 50,000 people have already died.
In solidarity with the Palestinian Islamist group, the hutis have attacked not only Israel, but dozens of ships in the Gulf of Adén and the Red Sea that travel through the Suez Canal, which hosts around 15% of world trade. In some cases they have sink or kidnap those ships despite the dissuasive attacks of the United States, the United Kingdom or Israel and the deployment of western warships. That has forced shipping companies to choose longer and expensive routes, especially through the African Cabo de Buena Esperanza.
