Dubai, United Arab Emirates -The air attacks aimed at the Petrolero Ras Isa port held by Yemen The Hutis rebels of Yemen killed 58 people and wounded another 126, the group said on Friday, marking what seemed to be the best known attack by the president under the president under the president Trump’s new campaign aimed at the rebels.
Evaluate the toll of the campaign of Mr. Trump, which was on March 15, has been incredible, since the central command of the US Army. Uu. So far he has not published any information about the campaign, his specific objectives and how many people have killed. Meanwhile, Yemen’s hutis rebels strictly control access to attacked areas and do not publish information about strikes, many of which have probably been aimed at military and security sites.
But the strike in the Isa Oil Port race, which sent mass fire balls shooting to the night sky, represented a great climbing of the US campaign. The Houthis also immediately launched graphic images of those killed in the attack.
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The war in Yemen, meanwhile, was further internationalized, since the United States claimed that a Chinese satellite company was “directly supporting” huti attacks, something Beijing did not recognize immediately.
The Al-Masirah satellite news channel of the Houthis issued graphic images of the sequels of the attack to Puerto Ras Isa, which shows corpses scattered by the site. He said that paramedical and civil workers in the port had died in the attack, which caused a massive explosion and fires.
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In a statement, the central command said that “US forces took measures to eliminate this fuel source for huti terrorists backed by Iran and deprive them of illegal income that have founded Houthi efforts to terrorize the entire region for 10 years.”
“This strike did not intend to damage Yemen’s people, who rightly wants to throw the yoke of the hutí subjugation and live in peace,” he added. He did not recognize any victim and declined to comment when Associated Press asked about the civilians who were killed.
The Puerto Ras Isa, a collection of three tanks of oil and refining equipment, is located in the Government of Yemen Hodeida throughout the Red Sea. NASA’s satellites that track forest fires showed an intense fire early Friday at the site, right next to Kamaran Island, attacked by intense US air attacks in recent days.
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The Puerto Ras Isa is also the term of an oil pipe that extends to the Maribes governance rich in Yemen energy that is still in the hands of Yemen’s exiled government allies. The hutis expelled that the government of the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, in 2015. However, oil exports have been arrested by the decadienda war and the hutis have used Isa ras to bring oil.
The Houthis and Iran denounced the attack of the United States.
“This completely unjustified aggression represents a flagrant violation of the sovereignty and independence of Yemen and a direct orientation of the entire Yemeni people,” the hutis said in a statement carried by the Saba news agency they control. “It goes to a vital civil installation that has served the Yemeni people for decades.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baqaei, said Tehran “strongly condemned the barbaric American air strike,” calling it “an example of aggressive crime and a flagrant violation of the fundamental principles of the UN Charter,” according to the Frenchman.
On April 9, the United States Department of State issued a warning on oil shipments to Yemen.
“The United States should not tolerate any country or commercial entity that provides support to foreign terrorist organizations, such as hutis, including discharge boats and oil supply in Houthi controlled ports,” he said.
The attack follows Israeli air attacks in the hutis that previously hit the port and oil infrastructure used by the rebels after their attacks against Israel.
The United States says that the Chinese satellite image supplier is helping the hutis
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the United States Department of the United States, Tammy Bruce, in an informative session with the journalists accused of Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd., a provider of commercial satellite images or “directly supporting the hutis terrorist attacks supported by Iran against US interests.”
Bruce did not explain in detail, but recognized a history of the Financial Times that cited anonymous US officials who said that the firm linked to the popular liberation army has provided images that allow rebels to aim at US participation.
“Beijing’s support, by the way, of that company, the satellite company, just after we have involved in conversations with them about this … certainly contradicts their claims to be supporters of peace,” Bruce said.
Chinese officials and the company, known by the acronym CGSTL, could not be contacted immediately to comment. Chinese state media did not recognize the accusation. The United States Treasury sanctioned CGSTL in 2023 for allegedly providing satellite images to the Russian mercenary force to the Wagner group while fighting in Ukraine as part of O Russian’s large -scale invasion.
An AP review discovered that the new operation of the United States against the Hutis under Mr. Trump appears more extensive than that of former President Joe Biden, since Washington passes from the launch sites only aimed at shooting classification personnel and throwing bombs in the cities.
The new air attack campaign began after the rebels threatened to start attacking the “Israeli” ships on Israel that blocks the help that enters the Gaza Strip as That war MATE. The rebels have freely defined what constitutes an Israeli ship, which means that many ships could be attacked.
The Hutis attacked more than 100 merchant ships with missiles and drones, sinking two and killing four sailors from November 2023 to January this year. That has considerably reduced trade flow through the Red Sea corridor, which generally sees that $ 1 billion of goods move through it. The hutis also launched attacks aimed at US warships, without success.
The American campaign does not show signs of stopping, since the Trump administration has also linked its air attacks with the hutis with an effort to press Iran. Its nuclear program that advances quickly. A second round of negotiations between Iran and the United States will occur on Saturday in Rome.
Negotiation bets could not be higher for the two nations that are approaching in half a century of enmity. Miss Trump has repeatedly threatened to release air attacks aimed at Iran’s nuclear program if an agreement is not reached. Iranian officials warn more and more that they could pursue a nuclear weapon with their enriched uranium arsenal to close levels of degree of weapons.