launched a joint attack against hugh think rebels in yemen. trey has the latest in tel aviv. jesse, good evening. this is breaking news the united states and united kingdom have launched a dozen strikes against rebels in yemen. this follows attacks against commercial shipping vessels, since mid october about 27 according to our sources. across mid red lines that were ultimately crossed by rebels launching new attacks not just against red sea but israel. back on september 19th they started their participation in the israel hamas war. when hezbollah on the northern border and they are all backed by iran and this is linked and connected and comes amidst concern that things are escalate together a broader regional conflict. israelis are fearing retaliation and we re learning an according to one u.s. defense official that in the strikes that took place tonight, jesse the united states and the united kingdom targeted storage facilitates and launch sites for cruise and ballistic m
have just launched a joint attack against iranian backed houthi rebelainss in yemen. has trey inkster is in tel avivas with the latest track. avi yeah. hey, jesse, good evening. thisv. is breaking news. the united states and the united kingdom have launchee unites and ud aron strikes against houthi rebels in yemen. lows this follows a series of attacks against commercial shipping vessels a since mid-october. around 27, according to ou r sources. and also amid red lines that were drawn by the. united states and ultimately crossed by those iran backed houthi crosss, launching new ats not just against the red sea, but againsst t israel.israel back on october 17th, the houthis starte. d their participation in the israel-hamas war. y arted thremember both hamas wr and hezbollah on israel s northern borde.r and, of course, the houthis in yemen, all backed by iran. thise is all linkedected an and connected, and it comes amid concern across the regiondt that things are escalat
for a failure to do so. tonight they worked along side british military and they had other help. this administration removed the official terrorist tag from this group because they were worried it was preventing humanitarian aid from getting into yemen so these are not a group that are in the ayes of the state department officially a terrorist group and we have no indication that president biden plans to speak on this. we saw him on camera late monday and we did get a written statement and there sass lot of information in there. peter, we may bring you back if we have video. police call campaigns are usually staged at town halls and diners. the candidates persuade voters.
the consequences for any failure to do so. and that s what we re seeing tonighurt. the administration did spend some time getting international partners involved tonight. they worked alongside british military aircraft, but they also had help from australia, the netherlands, bahrain and canada. and remember, this administrationd removed the official terrorist tag from the houthis because they wereas worried a couple of years ago it was preventing humanitarian aid from getting prevent into y. so these strikes are against an adversarial group. a there isn t any eyes of there state department officiallyy a terrorist group. and again, we have noa ou indication that president biden plans to speak on camera about this tonight. we last saw him on camera late monday, but we did get that written statement and there s a lot of info in there. t antherjesse. p all right, peter, thank you soet much and may bring you back if we have vide bo released by the doj. but political campaigns are trad
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