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Houthi rebels say at least 16 killed and 42 others wounded in joint US-British airstrikes in Yemen
Associated Press ^ | 05/30/2024 | JON GAMBRELL AND LOLITA C. BALDOR

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror; Yemen
KEYWORDS: airstrike; houthi; houthis; iran; terrorism; yemen

1 posted on 05/31/2024 8:38:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Bummer.

[NOT!]


2 posted on 05/31/2024 8:43:03 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

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).


3 posted on 05/31/2024 8:53:31 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Reported but unconfirmed: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/yemens-houthis-say-they-launched-missile-attack-us-aircraft-carrier-eisenhower-2024-05-31/
4 posted on 05/31/2024 8:54:39 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They brought it on themselves.


5 posted on 05/31/2024 9:01:31 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: SeekAndFind

Houthi rebel body count claims are just as believable as Hamas body count claims. Should of been orders of magnitude higher.


6 posted on 05/31/2024 9:05:13 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (The soap box and ballot box have failed, it's really close to time for the bullet box.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How many blowfish were lost?


7 posted on 05/31/2024 9:21:14 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not enough.


8 posted on 05/31/2024 9:21:26 PM PDT by bwest
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To: SeekAndFind

Freedom of navigation has always been a U.S. policy. Plus not getting your own ships fired upon.


9 posted on 05/31/2024 9:44:48 PM PDT by River Hawk
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To: River Hawk

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”.


10 posted on 05/31/2024 9:48:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

We need a ceasefire in Yemen now! Biden is engaging in genocide against the Houthi rebels.


11 posted on 05/31/2024 9:58:44 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: SeekAndFind
"...Houthis described all those killed and hurt in Hodeida as civilians..."

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?

12 posted on 05/31/2024 10:36:15 PM PDT by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Problem is, US strikes blows up sand, and the blockade of the Suez Canal continues.


13 posted on 05/31/2024 10:42:56 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: SeekAndFind

Really, the movement ought to be destroyed.


14 posted on 05/31/2024 11:04:52 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Genocide!

Oh…wait. It was us.
Nevermind!


15 posted on 06/01/2024 4:38:06 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: SeekAndFind

Another Gulf of Tonkin. Here we go again.


16 posted on 06/01/2024 5:55:21 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner (Vivamus stultus ignarus mori )
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To: Chauncey Gardiner; All

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.

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240613-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-israel-hamas-gaza-war-houthis-yemen-ceasefire


17 posted on 06/13/2024 2:34:16 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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