Former Deputy Commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM), Mark Fox, said that the Houthi group's threat to international shipping in the Red Sea is a multifaceted problem that requires a lot of patience.

Fox added in statements to Al-Hurra TV that Washington continues to confront the Houthi threats and ensure that this group is prevented from restoring its military capabilities with the support of Iran.

He stressed that the American forces took different methods to deal with these threats, through American ships defending freedom of navigation in the southern region of the Red Sea by monitoring, intercepting and targeting drones.

He stressed the importance of knowing the places where these weapons are manufactured and stored in order to target them, noting that the Houthis constantly obtain weapons from Iran and are trying to manufacture them.

He pointed out that the group adopts the same method used by terrorist groups, which is storing weapons underground, in caves, or in residential areas.

He pointed out that the United States is also using long-range B-2 bombers and other weapons, as well as intercepting “weapons smuggled from Iran to Yemen, and targeting control and command headquarters and weapons depots.”

He considered that the Houthi group does not now have the ability to use ballistic missiles, for example, and expected continued attempts “to carry out attacks to which the United States would be prepared to respond.”

Fox said that the United States has “several ways to determine the locations of these warehouses and their launch areas, but the difficulty lies in determining the locations of the mobile platforms and headquarters.”

In solidarity with Gaza, which is facing a devastating Israeli war of annihilation with American support, the Houthis use missiles and drones to target Israeli cargo ships or those linked to them in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean. They also carry out attacks with missiles and drones on “Israel,” including operations that targeted Tel Aviv.< /p>

Since the beginning of this year, a US-led coalition has launched raids that it says target Houthi sites in various regions of Yemen, in response to its naval attacks, which has been met with a response from the group from time to time.

As Washington and London intervened and tensions took an escalating turn in January, the Houthi group announced that it now considered all American and British ships among its military targets