Yemen’s Houthis will continue to be hit by US military strikes until they halt their attacks in the Red Sea, a senior American diplomat said on Thursday.
“Those [US] strikes are very successful in degrading the Houthi military capability.
The Houthis can keep doing this [continue with their attacks on vessels and mariners in the Red Sea], or they can stop and we can go back to peace,” US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking said in an interview.
Speaking after a trip to the Gulf last week and a visit this week to the US Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida, Lenderking praised the US military and its capabilities.
“These are professionals and they know what they’re doing. They continue to identify targets among the Houthi military capability to destroy,” he said.
