Likewise Day that President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between the United States and the Yemen Houthis, a Super Hornet F / A-18 crashed from the aircraft carrier. The fighter landed on the USS Harry S. Truman when “the arrest failed, which passed the plane over board,” said US Central Command to interception by e-mail. After the jet hook of the jet of $ 60 million has failed to catch the wire which slows down the plane, it dropped in the Red Sea. Two airmen ejected from the jet and were torn from the water by a research and rescue helicopter. The two were injured, according to an unnamed Centcom official.
The injured airmen are the last of an increasing number of victims in the Middle East that the White House Trump prefers to ignore. As the interception reported it last week, Centcom, the office of the Secretary of Defense, and the White House maintain the total number of American victims of the secret of war.
“The refusal to provide victims data for American troops in the Middle East is another example of the gross incompetence of this administration,” said representative Ilhan Omar, D-minn., The Intercept said. “Transparency in the victims suffered by all military operations should be a cornerstone of each administration. The refusal to provide the public with basic information should be deeply alarming for each American. ”
Omar is the third legislator last week to call for the responsibility of the White House and the Pentagon, joining the representatives Ro Khanna, D-Calif., And Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.
The total number of soldiers who were killed or injured in the wider American campaign against the Houthis, which began under the Biden administration, is retained to the American people. But since last Monday, there have been at least three victims. That day, a sailor was injured when another F / A-18 Super Hornet was lost at sea, falling from the Truman after the ship made a lively turn to escape a Houthi attack.
When the ordinate asked the office of the Secretary of Defense last week for the number of victims suffered by American forces in the campaign against the Houthis, the Pentagon fell to provide a number and referred questions to the central command, which referred questions to the White House. The repeated requests to the assistant press secretary of the White House, Taylor Rogers, remained unanswered for more than a week.
It is not a standard operational procedure. Under the Biden Administration, the office of the Secretary of Defense and Centcom provided detailed data on attacks against the military bases of the Middle East – including this journalist. Centcom provided the total number of attacks, breakdowns per country and the total injured number. The Pentagon has proposed even more granular data, providing individual attacks on attacks, including information on deaths and injuries not only to American troops, but even civil entrepreneurs working on American bases.
The interception revealed that American troops in the Middle East have been attacked almost 400 times, at least, since the start of the War of Israel – Hamas. The American navy ships in the region have been the most common target, being attacked 174 times since October 2023, according to the central command. According to Pentagon spokesperson Patricia Kreuzberger. This is about an attack every 1.5 days on average.
Strikes, mainly by the militias supported by Iran and the Houthi government in Yemen, include a mixture of unidirectional attack drones, rockets, mortars and ballistic missiles. These groups increased attacks on American targets in October 2023, in response to the Israeli war supported by the United States against Gaza.
Despite Trump’s claims that the Houthis have “capitulated” and “do not want to fight anymore”, it is not clear if the American campaign of billions of dollars and seven weeks has targeted civil infrastructure and, according to local relationships, has killed scores of innocent people, has achieved its objective of preventing the Houthis from preventing it from preventing the Houthis from preventing the Houthis from preventing international delivery.
“What happened now is that America has announced the cessation of its assault against Yemen after failing to achieve one of its objectives.”
Nasruddin Amer, spokesperson for Houthi, rejected Trump’s “errors and bravades” and led the interception to a declaration by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Oman, Badr Albusaidi, who declared that mediation by his country had “led to a cease-fire agreement” in which “no part will target the other”, including the American vessels, Bab al-mandab. A senior Houthi official had already declared to the fall site in April that the group would stop attacks if the Trump administration interrupted the attacks. Amer also told The Intercept that the Houthis would continue to fight Israel.
Houthi officials and supporters described the ceasefire as a triumph on Trump and an American defeat. “America attacked our country in the service of Israel and the support of the pursuit of genocide crimes in Gaza. We have defended ourselves against the American aggression and continued our support for Gaza,” said the interception by text message. “What happened now is that America has announced the cessation of its assault against Yemen after failing to achieve one of its objectives.”
The White House did not respond to repeated requests for comments on the declaration.
