Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Suspicion of US air attacks around the capital of Yemen, controlled by the rebels, killed at least seven people and wounded 29 during the night, The hutis Said on Monday, since they also claimed to knock down another MQ-9 Reaper MQ-9 American.
Since its inception almost a month ago, the intense campaign of American air attacks under President Donald Trump aimed at the rebels about their attacks against shipping in the waters of the Middle East, related to the Israel-Ahamas War, has killed more than 120 peopleaccording to the figures of victims published Monday by the Ministry of Health of the Houthis.
The images cast by the Al-Masirah satellite news channel in Houthis showed the firefighters sprinkling water on a furious fire that they described as caused by air attacks.
The rubble covered a street when rescuers took a person away from the site, which the rebels said it was a ceramic factory in the Bani Matar neighborhood in Sanaa, the capital. Associated Press could not independently verify what was beaten.
The central command of the US Army, which supervises US military operations, did not recognize strikes. That follows a pattern for the command, which now has Authorization of the White House to make strikes at will in the campaign that began on March 15.
The US army has not been providing information about the objectives either. The White House has said that more than 200 strikes have been carried out so far. The intense air attacks during the night until Tuesday also attacked areas of the Governments of Hodeida, Al-Jawaf and Marib, the hutis said, without offering any victims information.
The Hutíes said separately on Sunday night that they knocked down a MQ-9 Reaper drone about the Yemen Hajjah governorate, which is located northwest of the country in the Red Sea on the border of the country with Saudi Arabia.
Brig. General Yahya Saree, a Military Houthi spokesman described the demolition in a pre -recorded video message like the fourth in two weeks by the rebels. Saree said the rebels attacked the drone with “a missile manufactured locally.” The hutis have air surface missiles, such as the Iranian missile known as 358, capable of demolishing airplanes.
However, Iran denies putting up the rebels Armament manufactured in Tehran on the battlefield has been found and in maritime shipments that are directed to Yemen for the Shiite rebels hutíes despite an embargo of United Nations weapons.
Atomics General Reapers, which cost around $ 30 million each, can fly at altitudes of more than 40,000 feet (12,100 meters) and remain in the air for more than 30 hours. They have been flown by the US army and by the CIA for years on Afghanistan, Iraq and Now Yemen.
Central Command said he was aware that the “reports” that the drone was shot down but did not prepare.
An AP review He has found that the new American operation against the Hutis appears under President Donald Trump more extensive That the former president Joe Biden, while Washington passes from the launch sites only aimed at shooting classification personnel and launching bombs in the cities.
The new air attack campaign began after the rebels Threatened to start attacking “Israelí” ships Again about Israel, it blocks the help that enters the gaza strip. The rebels have freely defined what constitutes an Israeli ship, which means that many ships could be attacked.
The hutis pointed to more than 100 merchant ships with missiles and drones, sink two of them and kill four sailors From November 2023 to January of this year. They also launched attacks aimed at American warships without success.
The American campaign does not show signs of stopping, since the Trump administration has also linked its air attacks with the hutis with an effort to press Iran about its Nuclear program that advances quickly.
“What we are doing with the hutis and what we are doing in the region, we have shown the ability to go far, go deep and go big,” said the Secretary of Defense of the United States, Pete Hegseth, on Sunday in Fox News. “We do not want to do that. But if necessary, we will do it to avoid a nuclear bomb in the hands of Iran.”
Hegseth added: “We know they will go … He is taking a look at what is happening to the hutis and realizing that they don’t want any part of that.”
