The Houthis will hit back hard after the joint attack by the United States and the United Kingdom on their installations in Yemen. This is what several leaders of the movement that controls a large part of the country say. No retaliation has been reported so far.
The response to the bombings by the US and UK and four allies, including the Netherlands, will be the Houthis' largest operation yet, leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi promised. He calls on Yemenis to take to the streets on Friday and demonstrate against "American aggression".
“America and Britain will have to prepare to pay a high price and bear all the terrible consequences of this blatant aggression,” Hussein al-Ezzi, deputy foreign minister for the Houthis, also responded via X. The
Houthis had already threatened before the operation to take revenge by attacking American bases in Iraq, among other places. Although air raid sirens sounded around the US embassy in Baghdad, no attack was reported. Nor have any American ships in the Red Sea been hit by missiles or drones, American media report on the authority of the Pentagon.
