{"id":151833,"date":"2024-01-13T09:15:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T14:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=151833"},"modified":"2024-01-13T08:06:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T13:06:30","slug":"the-us-and-uk-strike-houthi-targets-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151833","title":{"rendered":"The US and UK strike Houthi targets in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Glowing-magical-mushrooms-in-the-forest-at-night-with-elves-and-fairies-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-149495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Glowing-magical-mushrooms-in-the-forest-at-night-with-elves-and-fairies-01-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Glowing-magical-mushrooms-in-the-forest-at-night-with-elves-and-fairies-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Glowing-magical-mushrooms-in-the-forest-at-night-with-elves-and-fairies-01-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Glowing-magical-mushrooms-in-the-forest-at-night-with-elves-and-fairies-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Glowing-magical-mushrooms-in-the-forest-at-night-with-elves-and-fairies-01-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Glowing-magical-mushrooms-in-the-forest-at-night-with-elves-and-fairies-01.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response to Houthi terrorist attacks against shipping and warships in the Red Sea, the US and the UK hit back. Targets were hit with precision weapons fired from the air and from the sea. The US and UK aimed at weakening the Houthi rebels&#8217; ability to conduct their attacks against shipping. The Houthi rebel leadership described these strikes as acts of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Reuters:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Witnesses confirmed explosions at military bases near airports in the capital Sanaa and Yemen&#8217;s third city Taiz, a naval base at Yemen&#8217;s main Red Sea port Hodeidah and military sites in the coastal Hajjah governorate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These targeted strikes are a clear message that the United States and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or allow hostile actors to imperil freedom of navigation,&#8221; U.S. President Joe Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis, who have controlled most of Yemen for nearly a decade, said five of their fighters had been killed in a total of 73 air strikes. They vowed to retaliate and continue their attacks on shipping, which they say are intended to support Palestinians against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We saw a large fire from where the attack took place. It was half an hour of terror,&#8221; said Kheloud, a Sanaa resident who awoke to loud explosions from the direction of the airport.<\/p>\n<p>By mid-afternoon, crowds had gathered in central Sanaa and other cities. Drone footage on the Houthis&#8217; al-Masirah TV showed hundreds of thousands of people carrying Palestinian and Yemeni flags, chanting slogans denouncing Israel and the United States in a response to a speaker on a giant screen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your strikes on Yemen are terrorism,&#8221; said Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, member of the Houthi Supreme Political Council. &#8220;The United States is the Devil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The commander of U.S. air operations in the Middle East, Air Force Lieutenant-General Alex Grynkewich, said 60 targets at 16 locations had been hit using more than 100 precision-guided munitions.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. official said the targets had been chosen to weaken the Houthis&#8217; ability to attack: &#8220;We were going after very specific capability in very specific locations with precision munitions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reuters has additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-britain-carry-out-strikes-against-houthis-yemen-officials-2024-01-11\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Houthi terrorist attacks against shipping and warships in the Red Sea, the US &hellip; <a title=\"The US and UK strike Houthi targets in Yemen\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151833\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The US and UK strike Houthi targets in Yemen<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,119,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-affairs","category-navy","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}