US President Joe Biden said today that US-British attacks on the Houthis in Yemen will continue as long as they continue their attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea.
When asked by reporters in the White House about those strikes, Biden answered: “Are they stopping the Houthis? No. Will they continue? Yes.”
Last night, the American army targeted the strongholds of the Houthi rebels in Yemen for the fourth time in less than a week because of the threat to the safety of maritime traffic in the Red Sea. US military forces carried out strikes from the Red Sea on 14 missiles of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, the US military’s Middle East Command said online.
Missiles from Yemeni rebels were ready to launch and posed an “imminent threat”, the US command said.
The strikes on those positions followed the official announcement yesterday that the USA had put the Houthis back on the list of terrorists. The sanctions that go along with the official designation of an extremist group as a terrorist group mean that their source of funding is cut off.
Washington has called the Houthi rebels “terrorists” who continue to attack merchant ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, Beta news agency writes.
