“This campaign is about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence. The minute the Houthis say, ‘We’ll stop shooting at your ships, we’ll stop shooting at your drones,’ this campaign will end,” Hegseth said in an interview on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures. “But until then, it will be unrelenting.”
On Saturday, Trump said he ordered “decisive and powerful” action against the Houthis. In a post on his social media platform Truth Social he said the group has “choked off shipping in one of the most important Waterways of the World, grinding vast swaths of Global Commerce to a halt.” He added attacks on American vessels “will not be tolerated.”
White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said on Sunday the attacks on the Houthis were successful.
“We hit the Houthi leadership, killing several of their key leaders last night — their infrastructure, the missiles,” Waltz said on Fox News Sunday. “We just hit them with overwhelming force and put Iran on notice that enough is enough.”
In an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he hasn’t heard of any plans for US ground operations in Yemen.
“Those are military decisions to be made, but I’ve heard no talk of ground raids,” Rubio said. “I don’t think there’s a necessity for it right now.”
The Houthi health ministry said 31 people were killed and at least 191 injured in strikes on Sana’a, Saada and Albaydha provinces. Most of the casualties were women and children, the ministry said, according to the Houthi-run Saba news agency.
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