Regional experts for Business Insider stated that the Trump administration air strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen – which were discussed by senior officials in the unknown chat group – are a great escalation to confront the United States with the group to attacks on commercial ships and marine ships.
“The strikes of the Trump era are wider in size and are formed as part of a sustainable campaign not only targeting the Houthi infrastructure-such as hideouts, stocks and military assets-but also the leadership of the group,” said Freddy Khoury, a global security analyst in the Middle East and North Africa at the danger of Ran.
“This reflects the Israeli approach during its conflict with Hezbollah, as the efforts made to deteriorate military capabilities accompanied by systematic strikes on field leaders, in the end reaching the figures of the high command and upper energy.”
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Regional experts have warned that it is possible that it would take months to see if more air strikes and targeting the Houthi leaders will end their attacks on Israeli ships and merchants. The Houthis may also finish these attacks with a ceasefire in Gaza or an Israeli return to the current attacks.
The Houthis started a campaign targeting and kidnapping commercial ships wandering in the Red Sea shortly after the start of the Gaza war in October 2023; Hamas, like the Houthis, is armed and trained by Iran. Yemeni militants also fired intermittent missile strikes against Israel.
The Biden Administration responded to the US Navy to protect commercial shipping near the Bab Mandab Strait and hit military targets over and over in Yemen, such as missile launchers, underground storage, radar and air defenses. These efforts failed to end the attacks. The Foreign Ministry re -designed the Houthis a foreign terrorist group in March.
The Houthis suspended the attacks targeting Israel and commercial shipping after a ceasefire in January in Gaza. On March 12, The group announced They were resuming the attacks if Israel did not stop prohibiting aid to the coastal Palestinian pocket. Three days later, the Trump administration ordered the intense campaign.
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The United States is only the latest power to confront the Houthis. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia led a multinational alliance against the Houthis in a war began in 2014 after the Houthis captured the capital of Yemen, SANA, from the internationally recognized government and ended with a ceasefire in 2022.
The new American campaign bears similarities with the Israeli approach. After the Houthis successfully hit Tel Aviv in a drone attack last July, Israel also launched Israel Long -range air strikes Against the group and threatened to search for its leadership. Since the start of its current campaign on March 15, the United States He asked Israel Failure to respond to the latest Houthi missile attacks, which were successfully intercepted by the Israeli air defenses, by saying: “We left us.”
Pilots from the carrier Abraham Lincoln participated in air strikes on Houthi weapons storage facilities in November.
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Compared to Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel has a relatively little intelligence on the distant Houthis, which is a shortage He recently sought to correct. This is in a flagrant contradiction with the extent of Hezbollah. In addition to the injury of more than 3,000 Hezbollah members with the besieged summons and floral bikes in September, Israel has long been assassinated by the group, Hassan Nasrallah.
Israel’s strikes sought economic damage to the Houthis through strikes on the group’s energy facilities and ports.
“The Biden administration has largely adopted a defensive position and is involved in interactive data,” said Mohamed El -Basha of the Pasha report, a risk consultant in Virginia. “However, the Trump administration does not continue to change the system or aims to overthrow the polls. I have intentionally avoided targeting the infrastructure that would harm the civilian population.”
“It is an offensive position designed to re -establish deterrence,” Al -Basha said. “President Trump has made clear that Houthi attacks on US naval ships in the Arab and red seas will not be tolerated.”
“While it is very too early to fully evaluate the campaign effectiveness, the Houthis admitted that they suffer from losses and losses from the ongoing air strikes.”
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Jwari from Ran, who only believes that a long -term air campaign could review the Houthis that the Houthis were “deeply firmly established in the difficult terrain in Yemen” and may have been prepared for a long campaign.
The independent analyst in the Middle East, Kyle Orton, believes that “it is too early to know” whether Trump’s general approach will eventually lead to more than one Biden administration that has been achieved.
Orton told Bi: “The strikes themselves did little to harm the pollution, and it remains to see whether this, as some administrative discourse suggested that the opening settlement in a sustainable campaign.”
A major shift in the US policy towards Yemen, from Orton’s point of view, requires a sustainable air campaign coordinated with Arab allies and the recognized Yemeni government to restore the lands that the Houthis hold.
“There is little indication that Trump is ready to get a” tangled “in the Middle East seriously,” said Orton.
Paul Edon is a independent journalist and writer who writes about the developments of the Middle East, military affairs, politics and history. His articles appeared in a variety of posts that focus on the region.
