Middle East crisis: US and UK strikes on Yemen explained

The US and UK have launched strikes in Yemen, in response to attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea. So, why have they done this, and what does it mean for the Middle East?

[dbh-om]

Commercial shipping is more important to them than tens of thousands of Palestinian lives lost

[RAPTOR]

USA and UK either wanted the escalation so bad in the Middle East or they are so stupid thinking that will solve the problem. Houthis rebels been in a war against 8 countries for 9 years now. Getting struck from from air and ground groups days and and nights and still couldn’t make a dent in them 😂

[arlokino]

I remember flight of Americans from Afghanistan - they entered Afghanistan beautifully - but they fled Afghanistan more beautifully

[moontulip_]

When ppl have nothing to loose they are bravest and most dangerous… for past 20 years US and NATO creating danger for themselves

[anirudh-nobc]

Why do I have a feeling that WW3 is about to start??

[Alex-pjps]

We are 12 days into the new year come on 🙄🙄🙄

[dogstar]

What did the Middle East say when they saw Yemen having another war?

Oman, here we go again..

[buskingkarma]

Unfortunately, , , if they are determined to attack ships, , then War it is! And hopefully, lessons are learned!✌❤🇬🇧

[mohmedhassan]

Former Israeli official Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who wasthe Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s, told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a "counterweight" to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat. Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009 that Hamas is "Israel's creation." Hamas was the result of this, as Mehdi Hasan explains. First, the Israelis helped build up a militant strain of Palestinian political Islam, in the form of Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood precursors; then, the Israelis switched tack and tried to bomb, besiege, and blockade it out of existence..,

[resurrectedone]

"I said: 'Get me President Bush on the phone, '" Olmert said in a speech in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. "They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn't care: 'I need to talk to him now.' He got off the podium and spoke to me." - Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert in 2009 Source: Jerusalem Post, NYTimes, Reuters, etc.

[anatolijku]

Удары коалиции по Йемену говорят нам - ООН не существует. Никакого Совбеза не существует. Они выбирают цели и поражают - где хотят и как хотят. Зато для Украины выставляют особые правила поведения на войне. Сюда ходи, туда не ходи.

[tk-piyf]

preach but don't stick to your own preaching

[mohmedhassan]

In March 2019, Netanyahu told his Likud colleagues: "Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas... This is part of our strategy to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.",

[TheAtlasReview]

Lots of real people with 4 numbers in their username in the comments today.
How odd.

[LordKingPotato]

Congratulations to US and UK team coordinations 🫡👍

[tk-piyf]

Why are the UK and US allowed to do this, since this is no different to what Russia did in Ukraine... what measures will Ms. Baerbock now take against the USA and England

[etimsam]

REPENT PEOPLE; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!

[Jabberstax]

Looking at what the Middle-East is like, I'm not sure that importing millions of them into Europe has been such a good idea. How long before Berlin or Paris resemble Yemen? London and Birmingham do already 😢

[MeowYin]

There is no debate here, it has to be done

[warukraine]

😂😂😂😂I have a feeling that little Britain will soon become even smaller😂