US air strikes kill at least 4 people in Yemen, Houthi rebels say

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Sign up the American air strikes beaten by the rebel areas of Yemen, with Wednesday, with with with The Houthis Saying that a strike killed at least four people near the Port City of the Red Sea of ​​Hodeida.

Meanwhile, satellite images taken on Wednesday and analyzed by the Associated Press Show At least six stealth spiritual bombers B-2 Now parked in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean – a very unusual deployment in the middle of the Yemen campaign and tensions with Iran.

The intense campaign for air strikes in Yemen under the American president Donald Trumptargeting the rebels on their attacks against the expedition to the waters of the Middle East from the War of Israel-Hamas, killed at least 65 peopleAccording to figures from injured published by the Houthis.

The campaign seems to show no signs of stopping, because the Trump administration has again linked its air strikes to the Houthis supported by Iran to an effort to put pressure on Iran on its Quickly advanced nuclear program. While not giving 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“Iran is incredibly weakened as a result of these attacks, and we have seen that they have withdrawn from Houthi leaders,” said Leavitt.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.”

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 leak of a signal conversation Between the Trump administration, officials and their public comments suggest that a leader in the rebels’ missile forces had been targeted.

Fatal Strike would target Hodeida

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. No warship has yet been struck, but the American navy described fire Houthi as the most intense fight His sailors have faced 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.

More than B-2 seen in Diego Garcia

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. 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 Underground Houthi bases. The B-2 should probably be used if Washington was trying to target Iran’s underground nuclear sites Also.

The Houthis said on Tuesday that they had killed Another American drone MQ-9 on the country.

Intense American bombings started on March 15

An AP review found the new American operation against the Houthis under Trump more extensive Let those under the former American president Joe Biden, while Washington goes from the only one to target the launch sites to shooting on the classification staff and the abolition of bombs on the cities.

The new air strike campaign started after the rebels threatened to start targeting “Israeli” ships Once again on Israel Blocking helps 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, pour two of them and killing four sailors from November 2023 to January of this year. They also launched attacks targeting American warships without success.

The attacks have considerably increased the profile of the Houthis by facing economic problems and launched a repression targeting dissent and workers in Le Havre