800 Houthi goal was hit after weeks of strikes, telling us

The US military says it has reached more than 800 targets since the ongoing air strikes against the Houthi movement in Yemen on March 15.

In a statement on Sunday summarizing the recent operations, the US Central Command said it “killed hundreds of Houthi fighters and many Houthi leaders.”

Washington said it was acting to end the threat posed by the Houthi -backed Houthis to ship in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

In Yemen, the Houthis – who control large areas of the country – said that the latest American attack on the capital SANA on Sunday killed at least eight people, including women and children.

Last month, Trump ordered widespread strikes on the Houthi -controlled areas and threatened that they were “completely exterminated.”

Iran has also warned against arming the group – which it has repeatedly denied.

On Sunday, the US military said that weapons storage facilities were among the targets that struck it, but he said it “would not reveal details” about the ongoing operations.

The United States said it “will continue to increase pressure” until Houthi attacks on ships stop.

Since November 2023, the Houthis have targeted dozens of commercial ships with missiles, drones and small boat attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. They drowned two ships, seized a third, and killed four crew members.

The Houthis said they are acting to support the Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and they often claimed that they are targeting ships associated with Israel, the United States or the United Kingdom.

The Houthis were not deterred due to the deployment of western warships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to protect commercial ships last year, or through multiple rounds of American strikes on the military targets ordered by former President Joe Biden.

After taking office in January, Trump redesigned the Houthis as a “foreign terrorist organization” – a situation removed by the Biden administration because of what he said was the need to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the country.

Over the past decade, Yemen has been destroyed by a civil war, which escalated when the Houthis took control of the northwest of the internationally recognized government, and an alliance led by Saudi Arabia supported by the United States intervened in an attempt to regain its rule.

According to the fighting, more than 150,000 people fought and raised a humanitarian catastrophe, as 4.8 million people and 19.5 million – half of the population – were displaced – in need of some forms of aid.