While the Houthis placed a condition on the ships to allow them to pass off the coast of the city of Hodeidah, by raising an automated banner on the ship reading “We have no relation to Israel,” intelligence information collected by the United States and other Western countries revealed Houthi efforts to obtain more weapons, which It portends further escalation in the Red Sea, according to the American magazine Politico.

The magazine quoted a well-informed American official as saying: The Houthi group may try to attack Western forces in the region, but it is not clear whether the recent strikes launched by the United States in Yemen have changed its plans related to this type of attack, noting that The Houthis possess missiles of various models and drones, and the attacks launched by the Houthis threaten to drag Washington deeper into the expanding conflict in the Middle East, something Biden has tried hard to avoid during his time in office.

A US Defense Department official told Politico that commando operations, such as those that took place this month, are usually complex, and include special forces aboard combat boats, snipers, drones, and surveillance helicopters, in addition to forces. The Navy, adding: “This is our specialty, to be able to work in the maritime field secretly, and to pursue difficult targets through stealth.”

US officials stressed that the aim of the strikes, whether multinational previously planned for January 11, or smaller-scale US attacks on anti-ship missiles that were preparing to launch last week, is to undermine the Houthis' will and ability to launch further attacks. While another official said: “The capabilities that the Houthi had (Thursday) last week no longer exist.” On the other hand, the head of the Revolutionary Coup Committee, Muhammad al-Houthi, said that putting the phrase “We have no relation to Israel” on the automatic identification plate allows ships to pass safely in the Red Sea, indicating that he allowed 64 ships with that plate to pass off the Yemeni coast.

The US Central Command had previously announced the death of two US Navy Special Forces soldiers while they were confronting a boat carrying weapons that it described as “advanced” earlier this month, indicating that the two sailors went missing off the coast of Somalia on January 11 and died. Among the dead.