{"id":425259,"date":"2025-04-30T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T08:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/04\/30\/yemen-regno-unito-usa-houthi-raid-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:05:13","slug":"uk-joins-us-operation-against-houthis-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/04\/30\/uk-joins-us-operation-against-houthis-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"UK joins US operation against Houthis in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; The <strong>British Air Force<\/strong> has launched its <strong>first joint attack with the United States against Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/strong> since <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u00a0took office.<\/p>\n<p>UK defense secretary <strong>John Healey<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/uk-strike-houthi-yemen-raf-b2742053.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> the news, providing\u00a0detailed information this morning (April 30) on the reason for the raid: &#8220;This action was taken <strong>in response to the persistent threat from the Houthis\u00a0to freedom of navigation<\/strong>. A\u00a055 percent drop in shipping through the Red Sea has already cost billions, fueling regional instability and risking\u00a0the economic security of families in the UK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, several raids were launched against the capital, <strong>Sanaa<\/strong>, which has been in Houthi hands since 2014, while other attacks targeted the area around <strong>Saada.<\/strong> Healey described the target of the operation as &#8220;a cluster of buildings, used by the Houthis to manufacture <strong>drones<\/strong> of the type used to attack ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, located some fifteen miles south of Sanaa.&#8221; Jet Typhoon FGR4s of the Royal Air Force were used for the operation, dropping remote-controlled bombs on the targets. As for the damage caused or the presence of any <strong>victims<\/strong>, the <strong>UK\u00a0did\u00a0not provide\u00a0details,<\/strong> while the US Central Command has not officially acknowledged the attack. &#8220;The strike was conducted after dark when the likelihood of any civilians being in the area was reduced yet further,&#8221; the British DefenseDefense\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/statement-on-air-strike-against-houthi-military-facility-in-yemen-29-april-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry<\/a>\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom has <strong>already taken part<\/strong> in joint operations with the United States in Yemen under the <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong> administration, which launched the campaign against pro-Iranian Houthi in January 2024. However, this new operation constitutes the <strong>first involvement in the Trump-led campaign<\/strong>. Since last March 15, his administration has launched over\u00a0800 attacks in Yemen, most notably striking this Monday (April 28) a <strong>detention center for migrants<\/strong> in Saada, killing <strong>68 people<\/strong>, mainly African civilians, as Yemeni media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/4\/28\/at-least-8-killed-in-latest-us-air-attacks-on-yemens-capital-saana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. In contrast, on April 18, a raid against the port of <strong>Ras Isa<\/strong> killed 74 people and wounded 171. The United States, which has maintained a less-than-transparent policy toward its operations in the area, has intensified its clashes against the Houthis in a bid\u00a0to <strong>support Israel<\/strong> and especially to\u00a0<strong>contrast Iran<\/strong>. After the fall of Hezbollah, Assad, and Hamas leadership, the Houthis remain Tehran&#8217;s last allies in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The British decision to join the Americans at this very moment could be linked to Trump&#8217;s intended negotiating initiatives with Iran, given the rapid progress of the Islamic Republic in its <strong>nuclear program<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight a British air raid hit a drone manufacturing center in the capital Sanaa. The operation was the first since Trump&#8217;s inauguration. Defense Minister Healey: &#8220;Protecting freedom of navigation in the Red Sea.&#8221; US attacked a migrant detention center on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7883,"featured_media":425245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707,30809],"tags":[26411,26282,27569,27337,27638,27637,26104,26286],"class_list":["post-425259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","category-defence-security","tag-houthi-en","tag-iran-in-2","tag-middle-east-en","tag-uk-en-2","tag-kingdom-united-en","tag-usa-en-2","tag-yemen-and"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425290,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425259\/revisions\/425290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}