The United States claim to have destroyed the oil port in Yemen; The attacks left dozens of deaths

The American forces attacked and destroyed the strategic port of the oil flow of Ras Isa in northern Hodeidah, in Yemen, Thursday (17). According to the United States, the site is an important source of financing of part of the Houthi actions, supported by Iran, which control a vast area of ​​the country, including the capital, Sanaa.

The American forces attacked and destroyed the strategic port of the oil flow of Ras Isa in northern Hodeidah, in Yemen, Thursday (17). According to the United States, the site is an important source of financing of part of the Houthi actions, supported by Iran, which control a vast area of ​​the country, including the capital, Sanaa.

The attack would have left at least 58 deaths, most of the port workers and more than 100 injured, according to a balance released on Friday (18) by the Al-Masirah television channel, which belongs to the Houthi. The rebels became a target of the United States after attacks on ships that crossed the Red Sea in November 2023, which led to the interruption of international maritime traffic.

The images broadcast on Friday from the channel and announced as “the first images of the American aggression” show the explosion in the port and clouds of smoke.

“The civil protection rescue teams, accompanied by ambulances, are making every effort to look for and remove the victims and put an end to the fire,” said Aneesa Alasbahi, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health of Houthis.

The demonstrations as a sign of protest for the US attacks and support the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are planned by the rebels for Friday in Yemen. The Shiite group controls large areas of the country, located in the Arabian Peninsula, and is in civil war since 2014. The conflict killed hundreds of thousands of people.

The Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas reported on Friday “a flagrant aggression” after US attacks on the Ras Isa port. “This clear aggression is a clear violation of Yemen’s sovereignty, a proven war crime and confirms the continuation of American aggressive policies that aim for free people who refuse Zionist and American hegemony in the region,” said the Palestinian radical movement in a note.

Illegal income

According to the US military command in the Middle East (Centom), “the goal was to attack the economic sources of Hurti power”.

“The United States took these measures to deprive the terrorists Hethis supported by Iran, of this illegal income that financed their actions to terrorize the entire region for over a decade,” added Centom.

Washington, who designated Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization in early March, accuses the group of controlling port revenues located north of Hodeidah.

“These hydrocarbons must be legitimately provided to the people of Yemen,” Centcom said. Thursday, Washington has imposed penalties for a Yemeni bank and its main managers, who represent the “essential” support for the Houthi, according to the United States.

The American army intensified their attacks on Yemen in mid -March at the request of the President of the United States Donald Trump. On Wednesday, the rebels accused the United States of having made various aerial bombings in the capital, Sanaa, where a person was killed, according to the group.

The attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the maritime areas considered strategic for global trade, led the United States to create a multinational naval coalition and attack rebel objectives in Yemen, sometimes with the help of the United Kingdom.

France faces the drone

Thursday evening, the French defense minister Sébastien Leconnu announced “the destruction by a French frigate of a drone shot by Yemen”. “Our armed forces undertake to guarantee free maritime circulation,” he added to the social network X.

The Houthi, who claim to act in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where the Islamic Hamas movement has been at war with Israel since 7 October 2023, regularly attack the country with missiles.

On Friday morning, the Israeli army has once again announced that she had intercepted another missile in Yemen.

With information from AFP

Source: Terra

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