
Newsweek
The Iran-aligned Yemeni rebel group waging an ongoing campaign of attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea over Israel's war in Gaza has told Newsweek that it would respond forcefully to the U.S. bombing Yemen.
"Any strike against us will be responded to, absolutely, without the slightest doubt, with all force and determination, and the region will be on the verge of escalation, the end of which no one knows," Nasreddin Amer, deputy information secretary for Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, told Newsweek on Thursday as reports first emerged of up to a dozen strikes being conducted by the United States and the United Kingdom in Yemen.
"Any strike against us has no justification," Amer added, "as it is only support for Israel to continue killing the oppressed Palestinian people."