#Yemen’s Iran-backed #Houthis hold a public funeral in the capital Sanaa for more than a dozen fighters they say were killed in US and British strikes last week.https://t.co/3X77WftyI5
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Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s on Monday held a public funeral in the capital Sanaa for more than a dozen fighters they say were killed in US and British strikes last week.
The militia had provided a corpse count of 16 for the strikes overnight into Friday, which would make them among the deadliest since the United States and Britannia launched a campaign in January to deter Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The Houthis, who control much of Yemen, have been harassing commercial vessels in the busy shipping lane since November, actions they say are in solidarity with Paleostinians amid the Israel-Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip.
An AFP correspondent in Sanaa said more than a dozen fighters were laid to rest on Monday, including nine members of the Houthi naval force.
Hundreds gathered outside the capital’s al-Shaab Mosque where mourners carried coffins and pictures of the dead as Houthi fighters dressed in blue ceremonial garb staged a military parade.
"My message to US and Israel... and those coordinating with them, is what you have done in Gaza and Yemen, we won’t forget," said Ahmed Abdulatif, a relative of one of the dead fighters.
"We won’t forget how many women and babies you have killed," he told AFP.
The US military’s Central Command said 13 Houthi facilities were targeted in Friday’s strikes.
The British defense ministry said the attacks targeted "buildings identified as housing drone ground control facilities and providing storage for very long range drones, as well as surface to air weapons."
The reprisals have not put a stop to the campaign by the turbans, who have vowed to target US and British vessels as well as all ships heading to Israeli ports.
On Friday, the Houthis threatened to step up their attacks on Red Sea shipping in response to the latest deadly strikes.
"We will not back down," Ahmad al-Bashri, deputy governor of Houthi-held Hodeida, told AFP at the funeral.
"We tell the Americans: Not only do we reserve the right to respond, but also that a response is coming."
The Houthi attacks have forced commercial vessels to divert from the shipping route, which normally carries about 12 percent of global trade.
In February, the Houthis held a mass funeral for 17 fighters they say were killed in US and British strikes.
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