内容摘要：A Bhutanese woman carrying her child climbs up a ladder to go outside a house near a polling station on the eve of general election in Morung village in Bhutan, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A Bhutanese woman carrying her child climbs up a ladder to go outside a house near a polling station on the eve of general election in Morung village in Bhutan, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

campaign comes after the Houthis’ threatened toover the country’s refusal to allow aid into the Gaza Strip.

The Houthis targeted over 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones,and killing four sailors during their campaign targeting ships from November 2023, weeks after the war in Gaza began, until January of this year. Trump has said restoring the flow of commercial shipping through the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting them is a priority.During the Biden administration, the U.S. military’s Central Command, which oversees Mideast operations, offered details to the public on most strikes conducted during the campaign. Those details often included the target struck and the reason. Since the start of the new campaign, however, there’s been no similar breakdowns released by Central Command.

The U.K.-based group Airwars believes it is likely that at least five U.S. strikes hurt or killed civilians, based off of videos and photos from the site, Houthi statements and other details. The U.S. military has not acknowledged any civilian casualties since the strikes began over a week ago.It declined to answer questions regarding possible civilian casualties, but said the “Houthis continue to communicate lies and disinformation.”

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