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1 week ago | 
dropsitenews.com | Murtaza Hussain |Shuaib Almosawa |Ryan Grim
On the morning of May 4, a ballistic missile launched by the Yemeni militant group Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, exploded hundreds of meters from the main terminal of David Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. Israeli and U.S. air defense batteries failed to intercept the missile, which sent travelers and staff scrambling in panic.
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2 weeks ago | 
dropsitenews.com | Shuaib Almosawa |Amanda Sperber
Earlier this week, a pre-dawn airstrike on a detention center in Sa’ada, northern Yemen killed nearly seventy African migrants. The Houthis blamed the attack on the U.S., while the U.S. said it was “aware” of the claims, but has not confirmed its involvement. Munitions experts, however, said that the fragments of a bomb found at the site were from the U.S.-made GBU-39.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Shuaib Almosawa |Vivian Nereim
Witnesses said an airstrike on Sunday hit a densely populated area adjacent to the Old City in Houthi-dominated Sana. An American airstrike hit a densely populated area of the Yemeni capital on Sunday, killing twelve people and injuring 30, according to the health ministry of the Houthi-led government. Two witnesses who live in the capital, Sana, said that the attack struck a neighborhood near the Old City, a densely populated that is filled with ancient towers.
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1 month ago | 
znetwork.org | Shuaib Almosawa |Jeremy Scahill
A senior leader of Ansar Allah, commonly known as the Houthis, told Drop Site News that if the U.S. ends its campaign of air strikes against Yemen, Houthi forces will commit to halting all attacks on U.S. ships in the region. “We do not consider ourselves at war with the American people,” said Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Ansar Allah’s political bureau and a longtime spokesperson for the Houthis.
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1 month ago | 
dropsitenews.com | Shuaib Almosawa |Jeremy Scahill
A senior leader of Ansar Allah, commonly known as the Houthis, told Drop Site News that if the U.S. ends its campaign of air strikes against Yemen, Houthi forces will commit to halting all attacks on U.S. ships in the region. “We do not consider ourselves at war with the American people,” said Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Ansar Allah’s political bureau and a longtime spokesperson for the Houthis.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
dropsitenews.com | Shuaib Almosawa
Emboldened by the results of 14 months of regional war, and backed by the U.S., Israel has steadily intensified its bombing attacks against Yemen.After its assassinations of top leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, Israel is now ramping up its campaign targeting sites in Sana’a and elsewhere inside Yemeni territory—as well as leaders of the Houthi militant group itself.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
blackstarnews.com | Shuaib Almosawa
By Shuaib AlmosawaPhotos: YouTube ScreenshotsSana’a, YEMEN—On October 17, an American B-2 bomber carried out 15 strikes on what defense officials described as weapons caches maintained by the Houthis, or Ansarallah, the well-armed, Iran-aligned political movement presently in control of much of northwest Yemen. The bombings followed a campaign of strikes by the Houthis against shipping vessels and targets inside Israel, in retaliation for its war in Gaza.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
dropsitenews.com | Shuaib Almosawa
Too often, we (you) give money to a cause that seems worthy, but that’s the last you ever hear of it. Did the money help? Did it get where it needed to? With that obscurity in mind, we wanted to update you on a fundraiser with some terrific news. Almost a year ago, before we launched Drop Site News, my colleague Ryan Grim and I asked many of you to give to a GoFundMe to support Yemeni journalist Shuaib Almosawa, our friend who needed to leave Yemen to get cancer treatment in India.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Vivian Nereim |Shuaib Almosawa
The Israeli bombing of a vital Yemeni port controlled by the Houthi militia is not expected to deter the group from further attacks but is likely to deepen human suffering in Yemen, regional experts said. Israeli officials said the barrage of airstrikes that hit the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah on Saturday was a counterattack after the Houthis launched a drone that struck Tel Aviv on Friday, killing one Israeli and wounding several others.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
seattletimes.com | Shuaib Almosawa |Vivian Nereim
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — When the United States announced it was leading an international maritime task force to confront attacks on ships in the Red Sea, it did not take long for the group behind the attacks, the Houthi militia in Yemen, to dismiss the effort as a lost cause.
