The first set of Donald Trump's air strikes against the Houthi rebels of Yemen killed at least 31 people, the rebel group said on Sunday, while the backer Iran said it would take revenge.
The Houthis, who attacked the Israel and the Red Sea during the Gaza war, said that children among those were killed by the intense barrage of strikes, which were performed with British military support. They added that 101 people were injured.
In a message on social media, Trump promised to use 'overwhelming fatal power' and ordered Iran to 'immediately' reduce his support.
De Houthis warned that the strikes 'will not pass without reaction', while the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi convicted the dead and said that Washington had 'no authority' to dictate its foreign policy.
A spokesperson for the Iran's Foreign Ministry, Esmaeil Baqaei 'strongly condemned the brutal air strikes by the US' in a later statement, in which they promised a 'gross violation of the principles of the UN charter', and the Islamic revolutionary waiting corps to condemn strikes.
The Houthi Ansarollah website hit what the 'US-British Aggression' and the 'criminal brutality' of Washington called.
The US Central Command (CentCom), which placed images of hunters and a bomb that demolished a building complex, said that 'precision attacks' were launched to defend 'American interests, scare enemies and restore the freedom of navigation'.
“Our Yemeni armed forces are fully prepared to confront escalation with escalation,” said the Rebels' Political Bureau in a statement about their Al-Masirah-TV station.
The first set of the air strikes of Donald Trump (photo) against the Houthi rebels of Yemen killed at least 31 people, said the rebel group
A girl injured by an American strike is on strike in a hospital in Saada, Yemen March 16, 2025
A plume of smoke waves during an American strike at Yemen's Houthi-hero Capital Sanaa early March 16, 2025
Trump promised in a message on social media to use 'overwhelming fatal power' against the terror group
The rebels, who have checked many of Yemen for more than a decade, are part of the 'axis of resistance' of pro-Iran groups that are completely against Israel and the United States.
They have launched dozens of drone and rocket attacks by ships passing through Yemen in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden during the Gaza War, and claimed solidarity with the Palestinians.
Pentagon Sean Parnell spokesperson said that the Houthis had attacked American warships '174 times and 145 times commercial ships since 2023'.
The campaign paralyzed the essential route, which normally wears around 12 percent of world shipping traffic, forcing many companies in a precious detour around South Africa.
The Palestinian group of Hamas, which has long supported the Houthis, hit the American strikes on Saturday, in which they have a grim violation of international law and an attack on the sovereignty and stability of the country '.
After they stopped their attacks when it was chattering -Gaza's fires came into force in January, the Houthis announced on Tuesday that they would resume them until Israel lifts his blockage of help to the shattered Palestinian territory.
Trump's explanation does not refer to the dispute about Israel, but was aimed at earlier Houthi attacks on trader shipping.
'To all Huthi [sic] Terrorists, your time is to and your attacks have to stop, starting today. If they don't, hell will rain on you as nothing you've ever seen before! “He said.
American planes that take off from aircraft carrier while the US central command (centcom) troops perform precision air attacks that distract a series of operations consisting of precision attacks against Houthi goals with Iran-stunned Houthi over Yemen
People and rescuers are looking in the midst of the rubble of a house struck by an American strike in Saada, Yemen on March 15, 2025
A man gesturing while looking in the rubble of a house struck by an American strike in Saada, Yemen March 16, 202
This hand -out image released by US Central Command (CentCom) On March 15, 2025, CentCcom forces are launching an operation against Houthi goals in Yemen
The Houthis, who attacked the Israel and the Red Sea during the Gaza war, said that children were killed among those by the intense barrage of strikes
“Don't threaten the American people, their president … or global shipping jobs. If you do that, beware, because America will keep you fully responsible and we will not be nice about it! '
Earlier this month, the United States re -classified the Houthi movement as a 'foreign terrorist organization', causing every American interaction to prohibit it.
The American State Secretary Marco Rubio also spoke with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Moscow is close to Tehran, who supports the Houthis.
“Continued Houthi attacks on American military and commercial shipping ships in the Red Sea will not be tolerated,” Rubio told Lavrov on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Houthis conquered Sanaa in 2014 and were ready to exceed most of the rest of the country before a coalition led by Saudi intervened.
The war destroyed the already impoverished nation.
Fighting has largely been on hold since a cease-fire from 2022, but the promised peace process has been stuck in the light of Houthi attacks on Israel and Israel-linked shipping.
