THE Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of the highest political council of the Houthis, today Friday described the US-British strikes in Yemen as “barbaric”. He added that a statement would be issued soon in response to the attacks.

In addition, an advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Fadi Al-Samari, warned today that the West is expanding the conflict between Israel and Hamas and increasing tensions in the region, as reported by the Iraqi state news agency INA.

Al-Samari made his comments after the US and Britain launched air and sea strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen in response to the rebels’ attacks on ships in the Red Sea in response to Israeli bombardment of Gaza.

The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi rebels, Mohammed Abdel Salam, made it clear earlier today that the movement will continue to target merchant ships if they have anything to do with Israelwhile he denounced the “unjustified”, according to him, strikes by the American and British armed forces against the movement’s facilities in various cities.

“There is no justification for this attack against Yemen, because there is no threat to international shipping in the Red Sea (…) the target (of the Houthis) has been and will remain Israeli ships and those heading to the ports of the occupied Palestine,” he underlined via X (the former Twitter).