Towards regional war: US + UK attack again Yemen on behalf of Israel

Empire Bombs Yemen to Protect Israel’s Genocide

After years of backing Saudi Arabia’s atrocities in Yemen, the U.S and U.K. bombed the poorest country in the Middle East for trying to stop a genocide. This is the U.S. empire.

By Caitlin Johnstone
Jan 12, 2024

The U.S and U.K. have reportedly struck over a dozen sites in Yemen using Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, backed by logistical support from Australia, Canada, Bahrain and the Netherlands.

U.S. President Joe Biden, in a statement, asserts that the strikes against “targets in Yemen used by Houthi rebels” are a “direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea.”

What Biden does not mention in his statement about his administration’s “response” to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea is that those Red Sea attacks are themselves a response to Israeli crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Also unmentioned is the that the strikes took place after the first day of proceedings in the International Court of Justice in which Israel stands accused by South Africa of committing a genocide in Gaza.

So the U.S and the U.K. just bombed the poorest country in the Middle East for trying to stop a genocide. Not only that, they bombed the very same country in which they just spent years backing Saudi Arabia’s genocidal atrocities which killed hundreds of thousands of people between 2015 and 2022 in an unsuccessful bid to stop the Houthis from taking power.

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US and UK launch war against Yemen

By Oscar Grenfell
Jan 12, 2023

The US and UK began bombing Yemen tonight, including strikes in the country’s densely-populated cities. While the scale of the assault is still emerging, the bombardment is an illegal act of war targeting an oppressed and impoverished nation that had already been ravaged by a years-long onslaught by Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and its allies.

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The attack highlights the growing danger of a broad Middle Eastern conflict, as the US seeks to transform Israel’s genocide in Gaza into a regionwide offensive, particularly targeting Iran.

In a statement to Reuters, a Houthi official confirmed that strikes had hit the capital city, Sanaa, which has an estimated population of more than three million, as well as Dhamar in the southwest, Sadda in the northwest, and Al Hudaydah, the largest Yemeni port city adjacent to the Red Sea.

Associated Press journalists reported hearing five airstrikes in Sanaa. Footage posted to X/Twitter shows large explosions in Al Hudaydah.

A US military statement proclaimed that the attack hit 60 “targets” and involved “Over 100 precision-guided munitions.” As of this writing, the toll of dead and injured is unknown.

In comments cited by the Al Mayadeen news agency, Hussein al-Ezzi, the Houthi deputy foreign minister, said: “Our country was subjected to a massive aggressive attack by American and British ships, submarines and warplanes, and they will have to prepare to pay a heavy price and bear all the dire consequences of this blatant aggression.”

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US confirms new strike against Houthis in Yemen

WASHINGTON, January 13. /TASS/. The United States launched a new attack on Houthi locations in Yemen, Reuters reported with reference to two officials from the US administration.

Earlier, the Houthi-owned Al Masirah TV channel reported that US and British military aircraft carried out a new airstrike on the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.

UK authorities have not yet confirmed the participation of British forces in the new strike.

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On the night of January 12, the armed forces of the United States and the United Kingdom carried out strikes using aircraft, ships and submarines against targets of the Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) in a number of cities in Yemen, including Sanaa and Hodeidah.

US President Joe Biden said that the strikes were carried out in response to the “unprecedented Houthi attacks” in the Red Sea. The targets included missile sites, UAVs and Houthi radar stations.

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Islamic Resistance Movements in Solidarity with Yemen

Jan 12, 2024

The U.S. and the UK early this morning launched an attack on more than 60 Houthi rebel targets in several Yemeni cities.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah Islamic resistance movement and the Iraqi Islamic Resistance launched attacks on Friday against Israeli military targets in the occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories.

The action came in solidarity with the resistance in Gaza and in rejection of the aggression perpetrated by the U.S. and UK against Yemen.

Hezbollah stated that its fighters attacked the Israeli military bases of Al-Malkiyah and Al-Asi, as well as military positions in the area known as occupied Shab’a Farms.

According to the resistance movement, they struck their blows using appropriate weapons and inflicted casualties on the occupiers.

It added that they also attacked the Hanita military base with precision weapons, as well as a concentration of Israeli uniformed men in the vicinity of the Al-Manara base, on the dividing line between southern Lebanon and the northern occupied Palestinian territories.

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