Location at a glance: Trump orders attacks on Huthi militia in Yemen

At the command of President Donald Trump, the United States started with massive air raids against the Huthi militia supported by Iran in Yemen. Trump wrote the attacks on bases, missile defense defense and leaders of the terrorists and restore the freedom of shipping, Trump on his Truth Social platform. A few days ago, the militia enforced with Israel had announced that it would re -record her attacks on ships that cross the Red Sea and nearby waters.

According to the Huthi, air raids from the American and British military met residential areas north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa. According to the BBC broadcaster, Great Britain was probably not involved. The Arabic-speaking TV broadcaster Alaraby reported on the platform X, citing the Ministry of Health controlled by the militia, of 31 dead and 101, including especially women and children. The responsible US regional command Centcom spoke of a number of “precision blows” throughout Yemen.

The attacks are likely to continue for days or maybe even weeks, quoted US media representatives of the military. Huthi spokesman Mohammed al-Bukhaiti threatened to retaliate: “We will encounter escalation with escalation.”

Trump wrote to the address of Iran that the support for the Huthi terrorists had to be stopped immediately. The leadership of the Islamic Republic may not threaten the American people, whose president or the global shipping routes. “Be warned, because America will hold them accountable and we won’t be nice to them!”, Wrote Trump. The Huthi militia, like the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the Hisbollah in Lebanon, is supported by Israel’s archenemy Iran.

The Huthi dominate large areas, especially in Yemen. After the outbreak of the Gaza War between Israel and Hamas in October 2023, they started attacking the Jewish state out of solidarity with Hamas with rockets and drones. They also started shooting ships with alleged connection to Israel. On the coast of Yemen leads one of the most important shipping routes for world trade, through the freighters from the Indian Ocean via the Suez Canal in Egypt reach the Mediterranean.

USA: Hundreds of Huthi attacks on ships

According to Pentagon, the Huthi militia has attacked 174 times US warships and 145 times merchant ships since 2023. The Huthi led a relentless campaign of violence and terrorism against ships and planes of the United States and other countries, Trump wrote on Truth. The government of his predecessor Joe Biden had tried more than 200 attacks against Huthi positions to weaken the militia. A few weeks after Trump’s government start, the United States classified it again as a foreign terrorist organization at the beginning of this month.

After this decision, Trump instructed the Pentagon to prepare military plans to combat the militia, wrote the US news page “Axios”. When the Huthi recently shot down a US military drone, preparations for attacks had been accelerated. On Friday, Trump then approved the attack plan before giving the command the order the following day. The US government informed a small number of important allies in advance about the attacks, reported “Axios”.

Rubio speaks to Lavrow: Huthi attacks are not tolerated

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to the Russian chief diplomat Sergei Lavrow, according to his ministry, and informed him about the military operations against the Huthi. Rubio had emphasized that further attacks on American military and merchant ships in the Red Sea would not be tolerated.

The “Wall Street Journal” reported in autumn that Russia supported the Huthi militia in its attacks on ships in the Red Sea with satellite data. The target data was sent to which Huthi, the country’s elite facility power, had reported on members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the US newspaper, citing allegedly informed circles. According to a “Financial Times” report at the time, the Huthi-Miliz, in turn, supported Russia in its war war against Ukraine with hundreds of Yemeni mercenaries.

Israel wants to continue indirect negotiations with Hamas

After a fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip came into force, the Huthi militia temporarily stopped attacking ships in January. However, when Israel recently stopped all aid deliveries in the Gaza Strip to push Hamas to release the remaining Israeli hostages there, the Huthi announced that they would resume their attacks on ships at the beginning of the week. The Israeli side did not adhere to the ceasefire agreement, wrote Huthi spokesman Al-Bukhaiti on X.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed his negotiation team in the evening to prepare for further discussions about continuing the ceasefire and the release of hostages, as his office announced. The basis for this is a new proposal by the US specialist Steve Witkoff, which included the immediate release of eleven living hostages and the handing over half of the corpses. Netanyahu and several ministers had previously been informed by Israel’s negotiation team about the status of the placement talks.

According to Israeli information, Hamas and other Islamist groups in the Gaza Strip still have 24 living hostages and 35 corpses in their violence. In addition to Israeli, five of the kidnapped people also have the US citizenship, but only one of them should still be alive. The most recent offer of Hamas to relieve him of negotiations for negotiations on the complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Israel and the United States rejected. If the USA, Egyptens and Qatar’s mediation efforts fail, the war could flare up again.