The Middle East resembles a boiling cauldron, after the decision by Britain and the US to bomb Houthi rebel positions to Yemen to protect shipping in the Red Sea, according to US officials, with the rebels responding that “we will continue the attacks”.
A spokesman for Yemen's Houthi rebels, Mohammed Abdel Salam, made it clear today that the movement will continue to target commercial ships if they have anything to do with Israel, while he denounced what he called “unjustified” strikes by the US and of British armed forces against the movement's installations in various cities.
“There is no justification for this attack against Yemen, because there is no threat to international shipping in the Red Sea (…) the target (of the Houthis) has been and will remain Israeli ships and those heading to the ports of occupied Palestine” , he underlined via X (formerly Twitter).
Biden: “New strikes if necessary”
US President Joe Biden has announced that US and British armed forces, with the support of Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, have carried out strikes in Yemen against facilities of the Houthi rebels.
“These strikes were in direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea — including the use of anti-ship ballistic missiles for the first time in history,” Mr. Biden said, according to a news release released by the agencies. of the White House.
“These attacks endangered US (including military) personnel, merchant marine workers and our partners, international trade, and threatened freedom of navigation,” the US president noted.
Joe Biden said he would not “hesitate” to order further measures to protect human lives and trade flows.
Lebanon's Shiite armed group Hezbollah today condemned the US attack on the Houthis and Britain in Yemen.
Hezbollah, which – like the Houthis – is considered close to Iran, added that “the US attack confirms once again that the US is fully complicit in the tragedies and massacres committed by the Zionist enemy in the Gaza Strip and area”.
Sunak: The US-British strikes against the Houthis are necessary and proportionate
“Despite repeated warnings from the international community, the Houthis have continued to carry out attacks in the Red Sea, including against British and US warships just this week. This cannot continue (…) We have thus taken limited, necessary and proportionate action in a situation of self-defence,” Mr Sunack added in a press release issued by his services at 10 Downing Street.
According to the Minister of Defense, four Typhoon FGR4 fighters carried out “precision strikes” alongside the American forces against two Houthi installations.
“The threat to innocent lives and global trade has become so great that this operation was not only necessary, it was our duty to protect ships and freedom of navigation,” he added via X (formerly of Twitter).
“The UK will always defend freedom of navigation and the free movement of trade,” Mr Sunack insisted in his statement, calling the Houthi attacks “dangerous” and “destabilising” as they caused a “major” problem in commercial shipping. “vital” road and “increased the prices of raw materials”.
Source: News Beast
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