Suspected American air strikes supported the areas controlled by the Yemen rebels on Wednesday, the Houthis saying that a strike killed at least four people near the Port City of the Red Sea of Hodeida.
Meanwhile, the satellite images taken Wednesday and analyzed by the Associated Press Show at least six stealthy spiritual bombers B -2 now stationed in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean – a very unusual deployment in the middle of the Yemen campaign and tensions with Iran.
The intense air strike campaign in Yemen under the American president Donald Trump, targeting the rebels on their attacks against the expedition to the waters of the Middle East, coming from the War of Israel-Hamas sparked by the attack of the terrorist group of October 7, 2023, killed at least 65 people, according to figures of losses published by the Houthis.
The campaign does not seem to show any signs of stopping, because the Trump administration has again linked its air strikes to the Houthis supported by Iran for an effort to put pressure on Iran on its nuclear program in advance.
While so far, giving no details on the campaign and its objectives, the press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, put the overall number of strikes on Tuesday at more than 200.
“Iran is incredibly weakened as a result of these attacks, and we have seen that they have withdrawn from Houthi leaders,” said Leavitt. “They withdrew critical members who launched strikes on naval ships and commercial ships and this operation will not stop until the freedom of navigation in this region is restored.”
A Yemeni soldier visits the graves of Houthis during Eid al-Fitr in Sanaa, Yemen, March 30, 2025. (AP photo / Osamah Abdulrahman)
The Houthis have not recognized the loss of any of its leaders so far – and the United States has not identified any official by name. However, the messages published by the flight of a signal conversation between officials of the Trump administration and their public comments suggest that a leader in the rebels’ missile forces had been targeted.
Overnight, a probable American air strike has targeted what the Houthis described as a “water project” in the Mansuriyah district of Hodeida, killing four people and injuring others. Other strikes in Wednesday targeted the governors of Hajjah, Saada and Sanaa, said the rebels.
The rebels say they have continued to launch attacks on American War Ships in the Red Sea, namely the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, who produces the majority of strikes on the Houthis.
This taking images shared by the US central command on March 15, 2025 shows a Super Hornet US F / A-18 attacking plane which takes off from the USS S. Truman aircraft carrier of the USS S. Truman of the US, in the midst of operations against Houthis in Yemen. (Dvids / AFP)
No warship has yet been struck, but the US Navy described fire Houthi as the most intense fight that its sailors have been confronted since the Second World War.
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, now in Asia, is on the way to the Middle East to support the Truman. Early Wednesday, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said that “additional squadrons and other air assets” would be deployed in the region, without developing.
This probably includes the deployment of B-2 bombers with nuclear compensation to Camp Thunder Bay on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The satellite photos taken Wednesday by Planet Labs PBC analyzed by the AP showed at least six B-2 at the base.
Deployment represents almost a third of all B-2 bombers in the Washington Arsenal. It is also very unusual to see as much at a base abroad. As a rule, so-called force demonstration missions involving B-2 have seen two or three of the operations of conducting aircraft in foreign territory.
The B-2 with nuclear compensation, which saw the action for the first time in 1999 in the Kosovo war, is rarely used by the US military in combat because each plane is worth around 1 billion dollars.
In this photo published by US National Guard, a stealthy bomber from the Air Force B-2 takes off from a royal Australian Air Force base in Amberley, Australia, September 11, 2024 (Sgt d’agt-et-pajor Whitney Erhart / US National Guard via AP)
He also dropped bombs in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. The bombers are based at Whiteman’s air base in Missouri and generally perform long -range strikes from there.
The United States used B-2 in Yemen last year to attack the underground Houthi bases. The B-2 should probably be used if Washington also tried to target Iran’s underground nuclear sites.
The Houthis said on Tuesday that they had killed another MQ-9 American drone over the country.
A review AP revealed that the new American operation against the Houthis under Trump seems more extensive than those under the former American president Joe Biden, while Washington only goes to target the launch sites to shoot the classification staff and drop bombs in the cities.
The new air strike campaign started after the rebels threatened to start targeting “Israeli” ships again on Israel’s blocks in the Gaza Strip. The rebels have loosely defined what constitutes an Israeli ship, which means that many ships could be targeted.
The supporters of Houthi sing slogans during a weekly anti-American and anti-Israeli rally in Sanaa, Yemen, March 28, 2025.
The Houthis have targeted more than 100 merchant ships with missiles and drones, flowing two of them and killing four sailors from November 2023 to January this year. They also launched attacks targeting American warships without success.
In addition, the group supported by Iran fired missiles and drones on Israel.
The attacks have considerably increased the profile of the Houthis by facing economic problems and launched a repression targeting dissidents and workers in Le Havre
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