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====Houthi-Conflict====
====Houthi-Conflict====
The [[Shia|Shiite]] Proxy [[Houthi]] rebels are fighting with the Yeminite government since 2004. In February 2015 the parliament of Yemen was dissolved and the Revolutionary Committee took control.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423</ref> The president of the Revolutionary Committee is [[Mohammed Ali al-Houthi]].
The [[Shia|Shiite]] Proxy [[Houthi]] rebels are fighting with the Yeminite government since 2004. The Houthis seized Sanaa in September 2014. In February 2015 the parliament of Yemen was dissolved and the Revolutionary Committee took control.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423</ref> The president of the Revolutionary Committee is [[Mohammed Ali al-Houthi]]. In March 2015, a [[Saudi]]-led coalition — armed, fueled, and intelligence-fed by the [[United States]] across successive administrations — launched Operation Decisive Storm to reverse the takeover and restore the government. What followed was not victory but stalemate: more than ten years of bombing that flattened much of the country, produced what the UN repeatedly called the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe, and killed well over a hundred thousand people directly with many more dead from hunger and disease.
The [[coalition]] never retook the north. By 2022, an exhausted [[Saudi Arabia]] signed onto a [[UN]] truce and, over the following two years, pursued a quiet exit — a de-[[escalation]] roadmap encouraged by its 2023 rapprochement with [[Iran]]. The Houthis, meanwhile, converted survival into strength. When [[Israel]]'s war in [[Gaza]] began in October 2023, they opened the [[Red Sea]] front, attacking shipping through [[Bab al-Mandeb]] and drawing the [[US]] and [[Britain]] into an air campaign that ran through 2024 and into 2025. In May 2025, after months of costly US and British airstrikes failed to break the Houthis, the Trump administration accepted an [[Oman]]-brokered [[ceasefire]] under which the US stopped bombing Yemen in exchange for the Houthis halting attacks on [[American]] ships — a ceasefire the Houthis reasonably claimed as a win. That deal pointedly did not cover Israel — and it did not cover Saudi Arabia.
The terror jihadi insurgent group is heavily supported, directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ([[IRGC]]). Since 2023, the group has increased its attacks on Israeli interests, including the targeting of Israeli territory and commercial vessels in the Red Sea.<ref name="jfeed-overview">{{cite web |title=Houthi Threat Escalates: Israeli Vessels Targeted |url=https://www.jfeed.com/tags/houthis |website=JFeed |access-date=2 September 2025}}</ref>
The terror jihadi insurgent group is heavily supported, directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ([[IRGC]]). Since 2023, the group has increased its attacks on Israeli interests, including the targeting of Israeli territory and commercial vessels in the Red Sea.<ref name="jfeed-overview">{{cite web |title=Houthi Threat Escalates: Israeli Vessels Targeted |url=https://www.jfeed.com/tags/houthis |website=JFeed |access-date=2 September 2025}}</ref>