Houthi rebels in Yemen said 68 people were killed and 47 were injured during a strike at a U.S. detention center.
The rebel group that ruled northwestern Yemen said the shelter was under the supervision of the International Organization for Migration and the Red Cross and "constituted a full-scale war crime." The U.S. military did not comment immediately.
Since March 15, the United States has been conducting near-daily strikes against Iran-backed groups in an effort to end its threat to ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
Hossis began targeting Israeli and Western ships in the Red Sea in October 2023, describing this as solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. Saturday's latest Houthi attack was made with Israel's Nevatim Airbase using Palestinian-2 treble ballistic missiles. The missile was shot down by Israel's defense.
After Sunday night's strike, graphic footage aired by Houthis's al-masirah satellite news channel showed what appeared to be the body, others were injured in the detention center.
Yemen has long been the main transit country for African people (mostly from Ethiopia and Somalia), trying to reach Saudi Arabia and Oman. An estimated claim that Yemen, more than 300,000 immigrants are a country destroyed by a 10-year civil war. Hushis allegedly made tens of thousands of dollars a week to smuggle people on the border.
Monday's strike recalled similar attacks in the Saudi-led coalition against Hotis in 2022, which the United Nations later said caused a collapse, killing 66 detainees and injuring 113 people. The Houthi shot and killed 16 detainees, fled after a strike and injured 50 people, the United Nations said. The Saudi-led coalition tried to justify the strike by saying Hus was built and launching drones there, but the UN said it was a detention center.
The U.S. military has changed tactics since the arrival of the Trump administration, which declared Houthis a foreign terrorist organization in January. Since mid-March, the United States has suffered more sustained bombing, aimed not only to defeat Houthi missiles, but also to defeat its political leadership, including Hotie leader Abdelmalek al-Houthi since 2004.
"To keep operations safe, we deliberately restrict details of our ongoing or future operations. We make a lot of sense in our operational approach, but will not disclose details about what we do or what we will do."
In March, Donald Trump claimed Houthis was the last militant group in Iran’s self-proclaimed “Axis of Resistance” that was able to attack Israel regularly – “destroy” by the U.S. strike. But he also warned: "Stop shooting at American ships and we will stop shooting at you. Otherwise, we are just starting out and the real pain has not yet come because Hossis and his sponsors are in Iran."
The effectiveness of the U.S. strike is controversial, with Huthis showing the ability to withstand bombings by Saudi Arabian jets supplemented by British guidance.
The UK is more involved in the latest U.S. military operations than any other European country. Most of the U.S. strikes were launched from the Red Sea by Uss Harry S Truman, but additional strikes were conducted by USAF B-2 bombers leased to the U.S. British base from the Indian Ocean.
More than 750 strikes have been approved since the decision to raise bombing levels in mid-March.
Houthis claims that the Pentagon cost more than $200 million in less than six weeks, beating seven U.S. harvester drones in less than six weeks.
The value of the U.S. attack on the Houthi leader is controversial, with some claiming that the movement will not be destroyed if its leaders are assassinated. Hushis is a Zaydi Shia, a branch that believes that leadership should be limited to the descendants of the Prophet Mohammed, and that leaders must meet certain criteria, including recognized religious scholars.
Maysaa Shuja Al-Deen, a senior researcher at Sana'a Center for Strategic Research, recently wrote in a Yemen Review, where there is no ability to make a transition or guide the transition, a dispute that may not be resolved without intervention. direction".