UPDATE: Yemeni media outlets affiliated with the Ansarallah group report that American airstrikes in Yemen have killed 19 people and injured 20 others.
At least nine civilians were killed in US-UK airstrikes on Sanaa, hours after Trump vowed an aggressive military campaign against Ansarallah.
At least nine civilians were killed and nine others wounded, most in critical condition, after US-UK airstrikes targeted civilian sites in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on Saturday evening, according to the Yemeni Ministry of Health and Environment.
In a statement to the Yemeni News Agency (SABA), the ministry condemned the strikes, calling them a full-fledged war crime and a blatant violation of international laws and conventions.
It warned that the targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure would have severe humanitarian consequences, particularly in a country already devastated by years of war, economic collapse, and one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
According to the Yemeni news outlet Al-Masirah, American and British fighter jets carried out multiple airstrikes on Sanaa, with violent explosions heard in several neighborhoods, including Al-Jarraf and Shu’ub.
US-UK airstrikes kill & injure civilians in Sanaa
At least 9 killed, 9 wounded in attacks on civilian sites in the Yemeni capital, according to Yemen’s Health Ministry. The ministry condemned the strikes as a war crime.
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The airstrikes came just hours after US President Donald Trump announced that he had ordered the military to launch a “decisive and forceful military operation” against the Ansarallah movement.
In a statement, Trump claimed the attacks were necessary to protect American shipping interests and restore freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, which has been disrupted by the group’s targeting of Israeli and Israeli-linked vessels.
He warned that if the Ansarallah did not cease their attacks, they would face unprecedented retaliation, saying, “hell will rain down on you like you have never seen before.”
Trump also took aim at his predecessor, Joe Biden, calling his administration’s response to the group’s attacks “pathetically weak,” and arguing that this had emboldened them to escalate their operations.
He accused the Ansarallah of waging a sustained campaign of “piracy, violence, and terrorism” against American ships, aircraft, and drones and vowed to use overwhelming lethal force until the group was neutralized.
Trump also issued a warning to Iran, urging it to stop supporting the Ansarallah and not to “threaten the American people, our president, or global shipping lanes.”
The escalation comes amid months of rising tensions in the region. Since November 2023, Ansarallah has been targeting Israeli and Israeli-linked cargo ships in the Red Sea, declaring its operations a show of solidarity with Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing military campaign.
The group has since expanded its attacks, targeting US and UK warships and drones, and has declared all American and British vessels legitimate military targets. In response, Washington and London began launching air and missile strikes on Ansarallah-controlled areas in early 2024, further fueling regional instability.
(PC, SABA, AJA)
Once again, the sponsors of terrorism in the Middle-East are killing civilians to impose the interests of their bastard child. Ansarallah and every resistance movement should retaliate and target all American/British interests in the region, be it military bases, ships and whatnot. Trumpet was not joking when he said America first; he is putting the interests of America in front of “israel” indeed. But as a shield, of course.
These evil demons will get payback big time.
airstrikes are the weapon of Godless Craven Cowards… when the West uses airstrikes, KNOW that you , the Houthi Protectors of the Palestinian People, ARE WINNING and are being cheered on to Victory by the Populations of the Earth.
Trump needs to be removed from office, immediately. It has to be done legally, and it has to be permanent. He’s a danger to world peace, and he isn’t thinking clearly. He’s actually delusional, and is only doing what he’s doing because he was paid off by the ZioNazis. Therefore he’s not fit for the seat of POTUS: it’s high treason to sell out your country in favor of foreign agents. We’ve seen firsthand how he wants to deprive the citizens of their constitutional rights, and he thinks he’s untouchable. Wrong. We The People make the decisions in America, and we’ve had enough. It’s only going to get worse. We need to vote him out, right now.
This is what you get by messing with international maritime traffic.
and what is that they got, you Zionist moron? getting civilians killed? not unusual from you after all. Besides, according to your logic, Zionists shall be bombed day and night for all of their infringements on the territories of other countries. Zionist hypocrisy at its finest.