Trump says the U.S. launched ‘powerful military action’ against Yemen

TEHRAN (Iran News) The United States has launched airstrikes against Yemen as the Arab country has pledged to attack any Israeli-linked ship passing through the Red and Arabian Seas in response to the regime’s blockade on the Gaza Strip.

The U.S. conducted the airstrikes on Saturday night. Yemen’s Al-Masirah TV channel said that the raids hit a residential neighborhood in the north of Sana’a.

There were no immediate reports of possible casualties.

U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed the strikes which he described as “decisive and powerful military action” against Yemen.

He also threatened Yemen with “lethal force” if it attacks ships in the high seas.

“We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.

Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement, whose members are called Houthis by Western officials and media, said earlier this week that it would launch attacks against any Israeli-linked ships in international waters unless the regime lifts its siege of Gaza.

Israel imposed the siege on March 2, blocking the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, in order to pressure Hamas to accept the extension of the first phase of a ceasefire deal, which ended a day earlier.

The blockade has deteriorated the humanitarian situation in Gaza, already in a dire state due to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

Nearly two months after the Gaza war broke out, Yemen launched attacks on Israeli-linked vessels and later conducted missile and drone strikes on positions inside Israel in an effort to pressure the regime to end its conflict in the Gaza Strip.

Those Yemeni operations continued until a ceasefire came into force in Gaza on January 19 this year. Yemen has now pledged to renew its pro-Palestine operations whatever the cost is.