The outbreak of the Gaza conflict in October 2023 has reversed the basic pattern of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the past, becoming one of the most serious conflicts in the history of the Middle East, destined to envelop the Middle East and the world in 2024. The international community has two consensuses on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: First, an immediate ceasefire. The second is the implementation of the "two-state solution", but once Pandora's box is opened, it is not easy to close, and Israel clearly opposes these two consensuses, causing the crisis to intensify and there is a risk of spillover. Worryingly, America's sworn enemies are also involved.
This sworn enemy is the Houthis, who have grown from scratch, from weak to strong, from small to large, and once defeated the Saudi coalition. As for the U.S. military, the Houthis did not hesitate at all, once captured a U.S. military boat, forced the U.S. military team captives to kneel on the boat with their heads in their hands, and then took a video and posted it on the Internet, which caused an uproar, which can be described as a shameful incident in the history of the U.S. military, but it is unbelievable that this matter ended in the end.
Now, in the face of Israel's bullying of the Palestinian people, the confident Houthis have come out to support Hamas's resistance, unlike some other Middle Eastern countries who secretly help Hamas, and the Houthis have made a big fanfare, claiming that they want to fight Israel and demand that the Israeli army stop killing Palestinian civilians and withdraw from Gaza.
Naturally, Israel ignored the threat of the Houthis and continued to launch ground and air strikes against Hamas. As a result, the Houthis launched a number of attacks on the Israeli mainland. The most recent attack, in late December 2023, was when the Houthis claimed to have used multiple "suicide drones" to attack the southern Israeli coastal city of Eilat on the 26th. Subsequently, the Israeli military claimed to have shot down the incoming aircraft, disrupting the enemy's plot to attack. In the afternoon of the same day, over the Egyptian Red Sea coastal city of Zaihaib, a target suspected of being a "drone" was shot down.
Since the outbreak of the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Houthis have repeatedly claimed to have launched strikes against targets in Israel, and not only that, the Houthis have also repeatedly attacked ships "associated with Israel" in the Red Sea waters. For example, a few days ago, the British security agency said that a merchant ship was about 60 nautical miles away from the port of Hodeidah in Yemen when it suddenly encountered a Houthi boat, and the Houthis warned it three times and asked it to turn around, but the merchant ship rejected the threat of the Houthis, and the Houthis used missiles to attack, but did not hit.
The Houthis acknowledged the attack, and the Houthi spokesman also said that as long as the ships coming out of Israel or sailing to Israel will be attacked by the Houthis, and other ships will not be affected, the Houthis stressed that it is very simple for them to stop the attack, that is, as long as Israel and relevant countries lift the ban and allow humanitarian supplies such as medicine and food to be transported into the Gaza Strip, the Houthis will stop their military operations against Israel.
The actions of the Houthis have not only angered Israel, but also angered the United States, the master behind Israel, and the United States has decided to send troops to teach the Houthis a lesson. On December 31, 2023, U.S. forces engaged in a head-on exchange of fire with Houthis in the southern Red Sea, killing at least 10 people and wounding two.
At that time, a merchant ship was attacked by the Houthis, and the merchant ship called for rescue from the US military, and after receiving the distress message, the US aircraft carrier "Eisenhower" and the destroyer "Graveley" immediately dispatched carrier-based helicopters to fight with the Houthis, and the US military claimed to have sunk three Houthi ships, no one survived, and the fourth armed ship fled the sea area. This is the first head-to-head confrontation between the United States and Hutu after two months of the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflicts.