Posted on 05/31/2024 8:38:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed at least 16 people and wounded 42 others, the rebels said Friday, the highest publicly acknowledged death toll from the multiple rounds of strikes carried out over the rebels’ attacks on shipping.
Three U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe a then-ongoing attack, described the strikes Thursday as hitting a wide range of underground facilities, missile launchers, command and control sites, a Houthi vessel and other facilities. They called it a response to a recent surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden over the Israel-Hamas war.
The U.S. F/A-18 fighter jets involved in the strikes took off from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, officials said. Other U.S. warships in the region also participated.
But the Houthis focused Friday morning on a strike they said struck a building housing Hodeida Radio and civilian homes in the port city on the Red Sea. Their Al Masirah satellite news channel aired images of one bloodied man being carried down stairs and others in the hospital, receiving aid. It said all the dead and nearly all the wounded from the strikes came from there.
The Houthis described all those killed and hurt in Hodeida as civilians, something The Associated Press couldn’t immediately confirm. The rebel force that’s held Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, since 2014 includes fighters who often aren’t in uniform.
Other strikes hit outside of Sanaa near its airport, and communication equipment in Taiz, the broadcaster said. Little other information was released on those sites — likely signaling that Houthi military sites had been struck. One person was wounded in Sanaa.
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Bummer.
[NOT!]
Other than that Biden is president, why are any alive after attacking a US carrier. (somewhere last night or this morning there was a report of an organized attack on a carrier).
They brought it on themselves.
Houthi rebel body count claims are just as believable as Hamas body count claims. Should of been orders of magnitude higher.
How many blowfish were lost?
Not enough.
Freedom of navigation has always been a U.S. policy. Plus not getting your own ships fired upon.
Funny how that didn’t apply during WWI when the Brits blockaded Germany and wouldn’t allow US ships to go to German ports even though at the time we were still “neutral”.
We need a ceasefire in Yemen now! Biden is engaging in genocide against the Houthi rebels.
Let's see, Houthi's attack a US asset; the US responds and kills Houthi's. The Houthi's say they are civilians.
But we're the good guys, so it's OK.
Well, how about the Israelis?
Problem is, US strikes blows up sand, and the blockade of the Suez Canal continues.
Really, the movement ought to be destroyed.
Genocide!
Oh…wait. It was us.
Nevermind!
Another Gulf of Tonkin. Here we go again.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels late on Wednesday June 12th, attacked a commercial ship in the Red Sea with a “drone boat”, authorities said, the latest escalation despite a US-led campaign trying to protect the vital waterway. A senior Hamas leader insisted that the amendments the group has suggested for a Gaza ceasefire proposal presented by the United States are “not significant” after Washington said some of the changes are unworkable.
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