The USA launched a new attack against the Houthis on Saturday night, January 13. This was confirmed by the US central military command (Centcom) itself: “American forces launched an attack on a radar site in Yemen at around 3.45am local time (1.45am in Italy) on Saturday, January 13.” Therefore, it will be a strategic infrastructure. President Joe Biden was clear: If the rebels had not stopped the Red Sea fire, there would have been new attacks.
According to what was learned, the American army would have hit a target that would put commercial ships passing through the Red Sea at risk. Armed rebels in Yemen (a Shiite group backed by Iran) have been blocking Western boats from passing through the region for months to protest Israeli bombing of Gaza.
Russia condemned the “blatant aggression” of the US and UK against Yemeni territory: “This has nothing to do with self-defense,” said Moscow’s UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia at an emergency meeting of the Security Council. Nebenzia accused the United States and Great Britain of violating Article 2 of the UN charter, the rule that asks members to refrain from using force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, with their operation in Yemen against Houthi bases. .
The actions taken together with the UK and the support of some other countries against the Houthi military bases in Yemen were “necessary, proportionate, respectful of international law and appropriate for the exercise of the right to self-defense guaranteed in Article 51 of the UN Charter”. US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the following at the security council meeting regarding the situation in the Red Sea.
“No one is immune from the effects of Houthi attacks, no one, not even Russia, all our ships are vulnerable,” he said. Even according to UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward, actions against Yemeni rebels are “limited and proportionate”.
Source: Today IT
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