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On Monday, the Houthi rebels in Yemen allegedly alleged that an American air strike had struck a prison with African migrants, killing at least 68 people and injuring 47 others. The American army had no immediate comments.
The strike in the governor of Saada Yemen, a bastion for the Houthis, is the last incident of the country’s decadelong war to kill African migrants from Ethiopia and other nations which are likely to cross the nation to have a chance to work in neighboring Saudi Arabia.
He will also renew questions from activists on the American campaign, known as the “Rough Rider Operation”, which targeted the rebels while the Trump administration negotiates with their main benefactor, Iran, on the fast nuclear program of Tehran.
The central command of the American army, in a statement early on Monday before the news of the alleged strike broke out, sought to defend its policy not to offer specific details on its vast air strike campaign. The strikes attracted controversy in America against the use by Pete HegSeth of the non -classified signal messaging application to publish sensitive details on the attacks.
“To preserve operational security, we have intentionally limited the disclosure of details of our current or future operations,” said Central Command. “We are very deliberate in our operational approach, but we will not reveal details on what we have done or what we will do.”
The army said on Monday that the central command was “aware of the statements of civilian victims linked to American strikes in Yemen, and we take these claims very seriously”.
“We are currently carrying out our assessment and our investigation into battle damage to these claims,” he added.
Graphic sequences disseminated by the Al-Masirah satellite news channel of Houthis have shown what seemed to be corpses and others injured on the site. The interior ministry managed by the Houthis said 115 migrants had been detained on the site.
The rebels’ civil defense organization said that at least 68 people were killed and 47 others injured in the attack.
Images of the site analyzed by the AP suggested that a kind of explosion had taken place there, with its walls of cement apparently dotted with fragments of debris and the injuries suffered by these there.
We can hear the voice of a woman, sweet in the images, repeat the beginning of a prayer in Arabic: “in the name of God”. An occasional shot rang while doctors were trying to help the wounded.
Ethiopians and other African migrants for years landed in Yemen, braving the nation torn by the war to try to reach Saudi Arabia to work. Houthi rebels would gain tens of thousands of dollars per week smuggling migrants above the border.
Ethiopia migrants were detained, mistreated and even killed in Saudi Arabia and Yemen during the war. A letter to the UN Kingdom of October 3 said that his investigators “received allegations of cross -border artillery bombing and light weapons allegedly allegedly by Saudi security forces, causing death to 430 and injuring 650 migrants”.
Saudi Arabia denied having killed migrants.
The alleged strike on Monday recalled a similar strike from a coalition led by Saudi Arabia which read against the Houthis in 2022 on the same complex, which caused a collapse of 66 detainees and injuries 113 others, said a United Nations report later. The Houthis fired out of 16 detainees who fled after the strike and injured 50 others, said the UN. The coalition led by Saudi Arabia sought to justify the strike saying that the Houthis built and launched drones there, but the UN said it was known to be a detention center.
“The coalition should have avoided any attack on this installation,” added the United Nations report.
This attack in 2022 was one of the deadliest attacks of the years of the years between the coalition and the Houthi rebels and came after the Houthis struck inside the United Arab Emirates with missiles and drones, killing three on strike near the Abu Dhabi International Airport.
Meanwhile, US air strikes overnight targeting the capital of Yemen killed at least eight people, Houthis said. The US military admitted having made more than 800 individual strikes in their one -month campaign.
The Declaration of the Night of Central Command also said that “Operation Rough Rider” had “killed hundreds of Houthi fighters and many Houthi leaders”, including those associated with its missile and drone program. He did not identify any of these officials.
“Iran undoubtedly continues to provide support for the Houthis,” the statement said. “The Houthis cannot continue to attack our forces with the support of the Iranian regime.”
“We will continue to increase the pressure until the objective is achieved, which remains the restoration of the freedom of navigation and the American deterrence in the region,” he added.
The United States targets Houthis due to the group’s attacks against expedition to the Red Sea, a crucial world trade route and Israel. The Houthis are also the latest militant group of the self -proclaimed “resistance axis” of Iran which is capable of regularly attacking Israel.
The United States is leading strikes on the Yemen of its two aircraft carriers in the region-USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea and USS Carl Vinson in the Oman Sea.
On April 18, an American strike on the port of Ras Isa Fuel killed at least 74 people and injured 171 others in the best known attack in the American campaign. Central command Monday explained why he hit the port.
“American strikes have destroyed the ability of Ras Isa Port to accept fuel, which will start to have an impact on Houthi capacity not only to carry out operations, but also to generate millions of dollars in revenues for their terrorist activities,” he said.
Meanwhile, Houthis have more and more sought to control the flow of information in the territory they hold in the outside world. He published an opinion on Sunday that all those who have Internet Recenders of Satellite Starlink should “quickly put the aircraft to the authorities.
“A field campaign will be implemented in coordination with the security authorities to arrest anyone who sells, markets, uses, operates, installs or has these prohibited terminals,” warned the Houthis.
Starlink terminals were crucial for Ukraine in the fight against Russia’s large-scale invasion and the receptors were also introduced in Iran in the middle of troubles there.
