Houthi rebels in Yemen say US air strikes kill 2 as Trump bombing videos show higher death toll
Saada’s strike killed two people and injured four others, and the video was played on Houthis’s al-masirah satellite news channel, showing the strike collapsed, which appeared to be a two-story building. Iran-backed Houthis did not play footage from inside the building, which they described as a solar store.
At least 69 people were killed in the Israeli-Hamas war attacks, according to the casualties released by Houthis.
But Huthis did not acknowledge the casualties of his security and military leadership – a challenge following the online video released by Trump.
Trump bombing video shows rebel leaders’ targets
Earlier on Saturday, Trump released what appeared to be black and white videos from a drone of dozens of people gathered together. In the 25-second video, the explosion detonated, leaving a large number of craters. “These Houthis gathered instructions for the attack,” Trump claimed. “Oh, these Houthis won’t attack! They won’t sink our ship again!” The U.S. Military Central Command, which oversees U.S. Middle East military operations, has not released the video, nor has it provided any specific details about the strikes since March 15. The White House said that more than 200 strikes have so far been made against Hotis.
Yemen’s rebel-controlled Saba News Agency quoted anonymous sources as saying the bombing was targeted for “social Eid visits in Hodida Province.” Muslims around the world have just celebrated the festival of Eid at the end of Ramadan. Saba posted images of other commanders meeting combatants during the holidays, although there were no senior Houthi officials.
Saba reported: “The people who attended that party had no connection with the actions carried out by (Houses) and they were implementing a decision to prohibit navigation of ships associated with the enemy of the United States and Israel.”
However, Houthis has not previously admitted any strikes against Hodeida during that time and has carried out a strike with such a high number of casualties. The SABA report also did not describe the murdered persons as civilians, indicating that those killed were linked to the security or military power of the rebels.
Mohammed al-Basha, a Yemeni expert at Basa Reports Risk Consulting, citing social media condolence notices that the colonel of the Hodeida police station, who oversees Hodeida, was killed during a strike, and his two brothers were killed during a strike.
“The strike also expanded significantly, hitting multiple gate shrines at the same time, with properties related to telecom infrastructure, command nodes, properties related to senior senior leadership and previously untouched tunnel networks in the mountains,” Al-Basha told the Associated Press.
“We also see gatherings directed against the Houthi forces, which suggests a more aggressive and evolving shift in the target strategy,” Al-Basha said.
The intense American explosion began about a month ago
A comment from the Associated Press found that new actions against Hottis under Trump appear to be wider than those led by former U.S. President Joe Biden, as Washington moved from targeting only launch sites to shooting at ranking personnel and laying bombs on the city.
After rebels threatened to block aid into the Gaza Strip with Israel’s target of “Israel”, the rebels began another attack on “Israel” and began a new air strike campaign. The rebels loosely defined the composition of Israeli ships, which meant that many ships could be targeted.
Houthis targeted 100 merchant ships with missiles and drones, hitting two of them from November 2023 to January this year and killing four sailors. They also launched an attack on American warships without success.
The attack greatly enhanced Hossis’s image, which faced economic problems and launched a crackdown on dissidents and aid workers in a stalemate war a decade later, tearing apart the poorest country in the Arab world.
The movement showed no signs of a halt as the Trump administration repeatedly linked its air strikes in Houthis with efforts to Iran’s rapidly moving nuclear program.
