Sanaa has warned that there are 'no red lines' as long as Israel's policy of starvation against Palestinians continues
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“Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Trump's threats come after the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) targeted Washington's aircraft carrier, the USS Harry Truman, multiple times in 24 hours on Sunday.
“For the second time within 24 hours, the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman was targeted in the northern Red Sea with several ballistic and cruise missiles and drones in a clash that lasted for several hours,” the YAF said in a statement early on 17 March.
Regarding the YAF's scope of operations, Mohammad Ali al-Houthi of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen told Al Mayadeen that they had reached the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian and Red Seas, and Tel Aviv.
“We have no ceiling or red lines as long as our people are being bombed, and the Israeli genocide continues against the people of Gaza,” he emphasized.
Yemen's attacks came in response to the launch of a US campaign on Saturday to “take out” leaders of the Ansarallah resistance movement and “hold Iran accountable” for supporting them.
US and UK airstrikes on Yemen late Saturday killed 31 people, the majority women and children, said Sanaa's Health Ministry spokesperson Anees al-Asbahi, who also reported 101 others wounded.
“This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple Houthi [Ansarallah] leaders and took them out,” Trump National Security advisor Mike Waltz said on ABC's “This Week” on 16 March.
On Sunday, US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said the deadly US strikes are a warning to Hamas to submit to US and Israeli demands in Gaza ceasefire negotiations.
“What happened with the Houthis yesterday, what happened with our strike ought to inform as to where we stand with regard to terrorism and our tolerance level for terrorist actions,” Witkoff told CNN.
“I would encourage Hamas to get much more sensible than how they have been.”
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