A Yemeni girl visits the graves of the Houthis during Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the Ramadan sacred fasting month in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, March 30, 2025.
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Dubai, the United Arab Emirates – US air strikes killed at least two people overnight in a Bastion of the Houthi rebels in Yemen, said the group on Sunday, while a bombardment video published by US President Donald Trump suggested that the loss of the global campaign could be higher than the rebels.
Saada’s strikes killed two people and injured nine others, with images broadcast by the Al-Masirah satellite news channel of Houthis showing a shot to collapse which seemed to be a two-story building. The Houthis supported by Iran did not broadcast any sequence from the interior of the building, which they described as a solar energy store.
The intense air strike campaign in Yemen under Trump targeting the rebels on their attacks against the expedition to the waters of the Middle East from the War of Israel-Hamas killed at least 69 people, according to injury figures published by the Houthis.
However, the Houthis have not recognized any victim of their security and military leadership – something disputed after an online video published by Trump.
Trump bombing images suggest that the targeted rebel leaders
Early on Saturday, Trump published what seemed to be a black and white video of a drone from a group of more than 70 people gathered in a circle. An explosion explodes during the 25 second video, with a massive crater left in its wake.
“These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack,” said Trump, without offering a location for the attack or any other detail on the strike. “Oops, there will be no attack on these Houthis! They will never flow our ships again!”
The central command of the American army, which oversees US military operations in the Middle East, did not publish the video and did not offer any specific details on the strikes it has carried out since March 15. The White House said there had been more than 200 strikes targeting the Houthis.
The Saba news agency controlled by the rebels in Yemen, citing an anonymous source, described the bombing as targeting “a social visit to Eid in the governorate of Hodeida”. Muslims around the world have just celebrated Aid al-Fitr, the festival at the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Saba had published images of other commanders meeting fighters during the holidays, but not senior high -level civil servants.
“The people present at this rally had no connection with the operations carried out by the (Houthis), which implement the decision to prohibit navigation on ships linked to the American and Israeli enemy,” said the Saba report, adding that the attack killed and injured “dozens”.
However, the Houthis previously recognized any strike on Hodeida during this period with a count of the victims as high. Saba’s report did not describe people killed as civilians either, suggesting that they had links with the safety of rebels or military forces. Hodeida was a Houthi attack site in the Red Sea.
Moammar Al -Yani, the Minister of Information of the Exiled Government of Yemen opposing the Houthis, said that the strike had killed some 70 Houthi fighters and leaders, as well as “experts” of the Iranian paramilitary revolutionary guard. He did not propose any evidence for the complaint, although Iran supported the Houthis during the war. Neither the Iranian government nor the guard recognized the attack.
Mohammed Al-Basha, an expert in the Basha Report Risk Advisory Yemen, cited opinions on social networks suggesting that a colonel supervising police stations for the Houthis in Hodeida had been killed in the strike that Trump stressed, alongside his two brothers.
“The strikes have developed considerably, hitting several governors simultaneously, alongside telecommunications infrastructure, command nodes, properties related to senior Houthi management and previously intact tunnel networks in mountainous areas,” Al-Basha told the Associated Press.
“We have also seen a direct targeting of Houthis force rallies, indicating a more aggressive and scalable change in the targeting strategy,” said Al-Basha.
Intense American attacks started almost a month ago
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 on aid blocking Israel entering the Gaza Strip. The rebels have loosely defined what constitutes an Israeli ship, which means that many ships could be targeted.
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.
The attacks considerably enhanced the profile of the Houthis, which faced economic problems and launched a repression targeting dissent and the workers of the Haps in Yemen in the midst of a decennial war that has torn the poorest nation in the Arab world.
The campaign shows no signs of stopping, because the Trump administration has repeatedly linked its air strikes to the Houthis to an effort to put pressure on Iran on its nuclear program quickly.
