Trump says that the Houthis will be “completely informed”, as strikes continue in Yemen

President Trump said on Wednesday that the Iranian -backed Houthi group in Yemen will be “exterminating” by the American military strikes, and Tehran warned against “immediately” Stop providing it With military equipment and public support and “let the Houthis fight themselves.”

His statements, which were published on social media, came as the US military continued a wave of attacks on the Houthi targets in Yemen as part of what US officials said was an attempt to stop the armed group attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea.

“I have caused tremendous damage,” Mr. Trump said about the effects of the strikes that started on Saturday. He added: “Watch how it will get worse gradually. It is not even a fair battle, and it will never be. It will be completely informed!”

Earlier on Wednesday, the US Central Command released a video clip showing American fighter drones. The army was drawing the attention of the group’s training sites, command centers and weapons facilities since the weekend, as it was saying an attempt to restore freedom of movement in territorial waters.

Houthis They were targeting Israel and attacking ships in the Red Sea in solidarity with the Palestinian armed group Hamas, which was also supported by Iran and led on October 7, 2023, an attack on Israel that launched the war in Gaza.

After Israel and Hamas agreed to a temporary ceasefire in January, the Yemeni militants suspended their campaign. But they pledged Appeals attacks When the armistice talks and Israel stumbled The banned humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip This month.

Mr. Trump said on Saturday that he ordered the army to launch “decisive and strong” acts against the militias, which control most of northern Yemen. He said that the Houthis “launched an unparalleled campaign of piracy, violence and terrorism” against American ships and other ships, attacks that Iran was funded. He added that the strikes were also aimed at warning to Iran.

Defense Minister Beit Higseth said the president’s statement, Writing on social media On Saturday that “Houthi attacks on American ships and aircraft (and our forces!) Will not be tolerated with them; Iran, donated to them, is on a notice.

The Yemeni group, for its part, said on Tuesday that it had it Targeted Four times in the previous three days and thwarted an air attack.

However, at a press conference with correspondents on Monday, Lieutenant General Alexos J. Greencotch of the US Air Force, who is also the director of joint corners, the Houthi claims, saying: “They have missed a hundred miles.” He added, “It is difficult to know what they are doing, given the level of inefficiency.”

Gen. Greenkoch added, “Initial estimates”, dozens of Houthi losses after the weekends, including technical weapons experts, but said that there are no indications that the campaign led by the Americans led to civilian victims.

Anis al-asbahiA spokesman for the Houthi Ministry of Health in Yemen said on Sunday that the strikes killed at least 53 people and wounded 98 others.

“We will use the overwhelming deadly power until we achieved our goal,” Sean Barnell, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, told a press conference on Monday. But he said that he would not be an “endless attack”, and that the “clear final situation” would be when the Houthis stopped attacking the commercial ships.

Since 2023, the armed group targeted the American warships in territorial waters 170 times, and commercial ships 145 times. In November 2023, the rebels seized the leader of MV Galaxy, where the sailors were detained from Bulgaria, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania and Ukraine for more than a year.

Last January, the rebel group released 25 members of the ship’s crew.