Expectations indicate the entry of a new phase for the US-British air strikes, which have been continuing since January 11, 2024, to limit the capabilities of the Houthi group, classified as a terrorist group, to target international shipping in the Red Sea.
Informed sources revealed a new US military plan to target leaders From the first rank of the Houthi group, which is classified as a terrorist group, while its operations against ships in the Red Sea continue.

The sources reported that the plan includes placing the names of first-ranking leaders of the Houthi group on an assassination list, after the military air strikes were unable to stop the Houthi attacks on ships.

She added that assassinating Houthi leaders is among the options of the new plan, despite Washington's fears that the assassinations may lead to more retaliatory operations by the Houthis.

She pointed out that Washington, in parallel with the upcoming planning and movements, is working to attract Houthi leaders and create a division within the group’s ranks, especially with the desire of some of those leaders to liquidate others.

Media sources had reported that a number of first-line leaders in the Houthi militia had left the capital, Sanaa, which is under the control of the militia, on an unannounced visit to Iran, and to escape possible targeting of it, noting that among them were prominent field leaders in the Houthi militia who had been summoned by Command of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Political observers believe that the transition of the US-British strikes to the stage of targeting major Houthi leaders will force the militia to stop targeting shipping and ships in the Red Sea.

The past weeks have witnessed a major shift in the US administration’s dealings with the Houthi threats to security in the Middle East region and to navigation in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab.

The Americans have deployed naval and air forces in the region since last fall, and have adopted the principle of thwarting Houthi attacks, but the Houthis have developed the type of attacks and were once able to launch an attack with more than forty drones and missiles at the same time, in a clear indication that the “Houthi threat” It has become different and this risk must be dealt with in a different way.