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Iran has been trying to escalate the conflict in the Middle East and it looks like they just got their wish. Tonight for the first time since the start of the Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea the US and UK launched attacks on multiple Houthi sites in Yemen.
????BREAKING: FIRST MOMENTS OF STRIKES ON YEMEN.
American-British raids targeting the Yemeni governorate of Saada, a short while ago. pic.twitter.com/kpUYxm4Mam
Palestine Now (@PalestineNW) January 11, 2024
The strikes were in response to attacks on ships in the Red Sea which started in November. The final straw came Tuesday.
The United States and a handful of its allies on Thursday carried out military strikes against more than a dozen targets in Yemen controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia, U.S. officials said, in an expansion of the war in the Middle East that the Biden administration had sought to avoid for three months.
The American-led air and naval strikes came in response to more than two dozen Houthi drone and missile attacks against commercial shipping in the Red Sea since November, and after warnings to the Houthis in the past week from the Biden administration and several international allies of serious “consequences” if the salvos did not stop.
But the Houthis defied that ultimatum, vowing to continue their attacks in what they say is a protest against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. On Tuesday, American and British warships intercepted one of the largest barrages of Houthi drone and missile strikes yet, an assault that U.S. and other Western military officials said was the last straw.
Here’s what CENTCOM said about the Tuesday attack.
Houthi Attack on International Shipping
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