On Thursday, Yahya Sarea, a spokeswoman for Yemen's Houthi group, said that in recent hours, joint U.S.-British forces had launched 48 air strikes across Yemen. Yahya also said that the Yemeni attack will not change their assistance to the Palestinians in Gaza, and that they will certainly retaliate against them and punish them.
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At 4 o'clock on Thursday morning, the U.S. Central Command destroyed an anti-ship missile that was trying to attack a ship in the Red Sea, according to a report released by the U.S. Central Command. The U.S. Central Command said the missile was found in the area controlled by the Houthi forces. The missile has already posed a danger to U.S. and commercial vessels in Yemen.
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Just the day before (February 3), U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin released a report saying that U.S. and British forces, supported by Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and New Zealand, launched a new attack on Houthi military targets in Yemen today, "further disrupting the ability of Iranian-funded Houthis to attack ships in the Red Sea." ”
In the early morning of the 7th in Sana'a, the joint forces of the United States and Britain carried out three attacks in the city of Saada in Yemen. That night, the joint forces of the United States and Britain successively launched air strikes on Khotada in western Yemen and Sana'a, Zamal Province, Bayda Province, Taiz Province and other areas in Yemen.
Mohammed Bukahati, a member of the Politburo of Yemen's Houthi (Househ Housea), was subjected to joint attacks by US-British forces against Israel in many areas of Yemen on the 2nd, and said that unless Israel's invasion in Gaza ends, the Houthis will do whatever it takes to launch an attack on Israel.
Here's a news item from Columbia TV in the United States**.
Wang Jin, vice president of the Middle East Institute, said in an exclusive interview with CCTV World News that the US military action has not eased tensions in the region, but is likely to trigger more conflicts, because the Houthis are very likely to increase their attacks on the region in the future.
In recent weeks, the Houthis have launched several attacks, but they have been small, with a maximum of a few dozen or fewer aircraft a day. But next, the Houthis in Yemen are likely to carry out attacks on American and British warships in the Red Sea, and even more fiercely on those ships associated with Israel, the United States, Great Britain.
The Houthis previously relied mainly on long-range drones and long-range missiles, and in the future it is possible for them to strike US bases in this area. U.S. troops are stationed in countries around Yemen, such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Iraq. Because the ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia, and between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in Yemen, have eased in the last year, it is unlikely that the Islamic State will target the United States in Saudi Arabia, although the Houthis are likely to strike American targets in Iraq and Syria, or carry out more attacks with anti-American militia groups in both countries.
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The strikes on Yemen were followed by air strikes by the United States against militant groups in Iraq and Syria. Wang Jin believes that this measure taken by the United States can only make the situation in the region worse.
The U.S. attack on the Houthis is somehow linked to its attack in Iraq in Syria, both of which are aimed at protecting U.S. security and rights in the region, as well as preserving the U.S. regional order.
These two shocks are completely different. The conflict with the Houthis in Yemen has been going on for a long time, and the current attack is more of an extension and escalation of previous military confrontation methods. The attacks on Iraq and Syria were a counterattack to previous attacks on American camps in Jordan. In the long run, the US teams in Iraq and Syria have suffered a series of attacks in recent weeks, and this major US action is more like a full-scale retaliation.
But in any case, the US attack did not provide stability and stability for the region. If the problem is solved by force alone, and there is a lack of effective communication and coordination, the contradictions and conflicts between the two sides will be exacerbated.
The fundamental cause of the war being waged today is the constant conflict between Israel and Palestine, which has given rise to a strong anti-American and anti-Israeli atmosphere in the Middle East. The United States will operate more effectively in the region, provided that the United States can exert more pressure on Israel to make more compromises and end its military activities in the Gaza Strip as soon as possible. Sadly, however, the United States did not do so.