{"id":5456,"date":"2025-04-29T00:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2025-04-29T00:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:04:49","slug":"68-killed-in-us-strikes-on-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=5456","title":{"rendered":"68 killed in US strikes on Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Huthi rebel-controlled media in Yemen said Monday that US strikes hit a migrant detention centre in the movement&#8217;s stronghold of Saada, killing at least 68 people.<\/p>\n<p>The US military has hammered Huthis with near-daily strikes since March 15 in an operation dubbed &#8220;Rough Rider&#8221;, seeking to end their attacks on vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.<\/p>\n<p>The Huthis launched strikes targeting Israel and Western vessels in the Red Sea, in what they describe as solidarity with the Palestinians, since Hamas conducted the worst-ever attack on Israel in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the US said it had hit more than 800 targets in Yemen since mid-March, killing hundreds of Huthi rebels including members of the group&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Just hours later, Huthi media said the latest barrage by US forces had hit a migrant detention centre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The civil defence has announced that 68 African migrants were killed and 47 others wounded in the US attack targeting a centre for illegal migrants in the city of Saada,&#8221; the Huthis&#8217; Al-Masirah TV said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huthi rebel-controlled media in Yemen said Monday that US strikes hit a migrant detention centre in the movement&#8217;s stronghold of Saada, killing at least 68 people. The US military has hammered Huthis with near-daily strikes since March 15 in an operation dubbed &#8220;Rough Rider&#8221;, seeking to end their attacks on vessels in the Red Sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}